Machine Learning Predictive Forecaster
With this release, we enhance the user experience when you create and edit predictive forecasts. We also enable you to view predictive metrics on standard sheets for plan versions that you seeded with ML-generated data from a forecast.
Preview Date: 2025-04-11. Production Date: 2025-05-09.
Business Benefits
This makes it easier to create and edit predictive forecasts, and gives you more visibility on where your data came from and enables you to make more informed decisions about that data.Changes
When you create or edit forecasts on the Predictive Forecaster
page of Model Management
, we add:
- A newAuto-Detect Seasonalitycheck box.
- Tooltips for many fields and prompts.
When you select a version with data generated by a predictive forecaster on standard sheets, we now display the
Show Predictive Metrics
toolbar icon that enables you to view on cells with generated data:
- A purple triangle on the corner of the cell.
- Hover text with the forecast range and accuracy metrics.
If cells with generated data exist on a row, we display the purple triangle and hover text on all cells in the row. When you don't enable accuracy metrics on the predictive forecaster or no metrics exist, we disable the toolbar icon.
What Do I Need to Do?
When you create or edit your forecast, select the Accuracy Metric
check box to generate a confidence level based on backtesting.Change Log
Auto-Detect Seasonality
We update the note to document the new
Auto-Detect Seasonality
check box when you create or edit forecasts. We omitted this note from the Preview section of the 2025-06-13 service update.