Step 1: Create Forecaster modules

You create Forecaster modules and views to store source data, insights and results.

As you build source modules:

• It's a best practice to save a view for each source module (see Saved views for details).
  • Forecaster requires views for the source modules, though they can be the default view.
• Use easily recognizable names for your saved views, as you might have to choose from a long list of views. Examples:
  • Historical data last 18 months (good view name)
  • New data view (a name that's difficult to recall and identify later)

Forecaster supports up to 100,000 unique items. If you have a large data set, consider data tranches (chunks of smaller data). Forecaster also supports 1,095 time periods. For example: daily data might be 1,095 divided by 365 days equals a maximum of three years.

The table below lists the Forecaster modules, and whether they're compulsory, source, or output modules. Modules appear in the order they must be created.