In our last team meeting on Friday, I mentioned taking a look into nonlinear regression as a possible way to analyze our data. Matt looked into this a bit and found a very interesting video by Zico Kolter, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. I only watched about the first 10 minutes of the hour long video, but to say the least, it was already filled with very useful content. For example, one of the first images he showed was a plot of Peak Hourly Energy Usage vs. Temperature data in Pittsburgh over a four year period. This was strikingly similar to a scatter plot that Matt created that plotted nighttime kW usage vs Temperature.
According to Zico Kolter's course website, one of the goals of the course is to "address issues regarding the prediction, modeling, and control of electricity". It is exciting to see that we are not the only ones involved with this and that there have been efforts made that we can build off of. Although the video was a bit difficult to understand conceptually, he has some earlier videos of the same course that I plan on looking into. The link to both the course website and the YouTube video are below.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zkolter/course/15-884/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wof0eipWP1I
According to Zico Kolter's course website, one of the goals of the course is to "address issues regarding the prediction, modeling, and control of electricity". It is exciting to see that we are not the only ones involved with this and that there have been efforts made that we can build off of. Although the video was a bit difficult to understand conceptually, he has some earlier videos of the same course that I plan on looking into. The link to both the course website and the YouTube video are below.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zkolter/course/15-884/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wof0eipWP1I
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