PRODUCTION SCENARIO
A meal-delivery company wants to predict how many minutes each order will take to arrive. The training data includes distance, time of day, and restaurant preparation history. The target column holds values such as 27 and 41.
Which Amazon SageMaker Canvas model type should the company use?
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Answer: Numeric prediction (regression)
The target is a continuous number of minutes, which Canvas calls numeric prediction and machine learning calls regression. The 2 category and 3+ category prediction types would force the minute values into buckets and discard the quantity being asked for. Time series forecasting predicts future values of a series over a period of time, but here each row is an independent order and the minutes are an attribute of that order, not a point in a series.