Using the TZPAN course as a guide (Predictive Analysis Course on SAP's Learning Hub - see training.sap.com) I followed it along to forecast European Car registrations. I found some sample data here.
Figure 1
The first step, as shown in Figure 1, is to visualize the data after acquiring. You can see the data is the number of registrations by year.
Figure 2: Source: SAP
Figure 2 is from the Learning Hub, describing all the "rooms" in SAP Predictive Analysis. Because the Learning Hub covers an older version of SAP Predictive, the "Compose" room is missing. But I like the descriptions in each of the rooms as it relates to SAP Predictive Analysis.
Figure 3: Source: SAP
Figure 3 covers the Predictive Room from the SAP Learning Hub. Generally you have your dataset, your algorithm and optionally you are writing the results to a data source. It is that easy.
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Figure 4 shows the example for where I am forecasting the registrations based on the dataset I obtained. This is in the Predict room where I am using "triple exponential smoothing" algorithm.
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I run the forecast and was successful as shown in Figure 5.
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Figure 6 shows the results and the predicted values
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Figure 7 shows the trend from the results tab of the Predict room.
Now that I have followed the Learning Hub course I can try to apply this to some other data.
Reference
What is New in SAP Predictive Analysis 2.0 - Upcoming ASUG Webcast