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Vertex Forecasting and Time Series in Practice

This course is an introduction to building forecasting solutions with Google Cloud. You start with sequence models and time series foundations. You then walk through an end-to-end workflow: from data preparation to model development and deployment with Vertex AI. Finally, you learn the lessons and tips from a retail use case and apply the knowledge by building your own forecasting models.

€920,00 excl. VAT

Individual scheduling

The courses are held as dedicated group sessions. Once you've booked, we'll coordinate a date that works for your team and send invitations to all participants.

Prerequisites

Having one or more of the following:

  • Basic knowledge of Python syntax
  • Basic understanding of machine learning models
  • Prior experience building machine learning solutions on Google Cloud

What you'll learn

  • Understand the main concepts and the applications of a
    sequence model, time series, and forecasting.
  • Identify the options to develop a forecasting model on
    Google Cloud.
  • Describe the workflow to develop a forecasting model by using Vertex AI.
  • Prepare data (including ingestion and feature engineering) by
    using BigQuery and Vertex managed datasets.
  • Train a forecasting model and evaluate the performance by
    using AutoML.
  • Deploy and monitor a forecasting model by using Vertex AI
    Pipelines.
  • Build a forecasting solution from end-to-end using a
    retail dataset.

Course modules
This module addresses the reasons to build a forecasting solution on Google Cloud and introduces the learning objectives.
This module provides a theoretical foundation of types of sequence models, time series patterns and analysis, and forecasting notations.
This module introduces two major options to build a forecasting solution on Google Cloud: BigQuery ML and Vertex AI Forecast (AutoML). It also investigates the unique features of Vertex AI Forecast and explores an end-to-end workflow with AutoML.
This module explores the transformation of original data to the data types and format supported by Vertex AI. It also introduces the different types of features in time series and the best practices for data ingestion.
This module walks learners through the model training and demonstrates them configuration details such as the setup of context window, forecast horizon, and optimization objective.
This module describes the training data split, demonstrates the evaluation metrics, and recommends the approaches to improve the model performance.
This module demonstrates model prediction, specifically the batch prediction with Vertex AI Forecast. It also explores machine learning operations (MLOps) and the transition from development to production.
This module describes model drift and the approach of model retraining. It also demonstrates the automation of the forecasting workflow by using Vertex AI Pipelines.
This module describes a use case to build a forecasting solution with Vertex AI Forecast in a retail store. It demonstrates the steps and considerations, walks through a pilot study with two different datasets, and discusses the challenges and lessons.
This module addresses the main features of Vertex AI Forecast and summarizes the main topics of each module.
Vertex Forecasting and Time Series in Practice