Accurate energy forecasting for smarter homes and sustainable energy systems.
- Data Preprocessing
- Feature Engineering
- Regression Modeling
- Evaluation Metrics
In the modern world, energy management is a critical issue for both households and energy providers. Accurate forecasting of energy consumption allows for:
- 📊 Better planning and resource optimization
- 💸 Cost reduction for consumers
- ⚙️ Efficient distribution for energy providers
🎯 Goal: Build a machine learning model that predicts household energy consumption using historical data.
This model helps:
- 🏠 Households gain insights into their energy usage patterns
- 🔌 Energy providers forecast demand more effectively
By the end of this project, the model will deliver actionable insights and serve as a foundation for smart energy management systems.
- 🏠 Household Energy Management: Monitor usage, reduce bills, and promote energy-efficient habits.
- 🔌 Demand Forecasting: Predict future demand for better load balancing and dynamic pricing.
⚠️ Anomaly Detection: Identify irregular patterns indicating faults or unauthorized consumption.- ⚡ Smart Grid Integration: Enhance real-time optimization with predictive analytics.
- 🌱 Environmental Impact: Reduce carbon footprint and promote sustainability.
- Load and inspect the dataset
- Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA)
- Identify trends, outliers, and correlations
- Handle missing/inconsistent values
- Parse date & time into usable features
- Engineer features: daily averages, peak hours, rolling stats
- Normalize and scale the data
- Select relevant predictors
- (Optional) Integrate external data like weather
- Train-test split
- Train models: Linear Regression, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Neural Networks
- Hyperparameter tuning
- Evaluate using: RMSE, MAE, R²
- Compare models and select the best-performing one
- Accurate predictive model for household power consumption
- Key insights into energy usage patterns
- Visualizations of trends, performance, and feature importance
- ✅ Source Code: Well-documented scripts or notebooks
- 📊 Visualizations: Energy trends, model metrics, feature importance
- 📝 Report: Data analysis, modeling results, recommendations
| Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| RMSE | Root Mean Squared Error: Measures prediction error |
| MAE | Mean Absolute Error: Average absolute prediction gap |
| R² Score | Indicates explanatory power of the model |
| Feature Importance | Highlights top influencing variables |
| Visualization Quality | Clarity and usefulness of graphs and plots |
- 💻 Python
- 🧪 Scikit-learn
- 🐼 Pandas
- 📊 Matplotlib / Seaborn / Plotly
- 🔍 Feature Engineering
- 🚀 Regression Modeling
- 🎯 Hyperparameter Tuning
- 📈 Visualization
Name: Individual Household Electric Power Consumption
Source: UCI Machine Learning Repository
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