Polling died last night. It's been terminally ill for a while now. The predictions for the UK general election in 2015 were abysmal. Brexit polls were unreliable. And polls put the Scottish independence referendum result in 2014 as a close call when it was a resounding "No". After its performance in last night's US presidential election, we have to reach for the life support switch. Here are … [Read more...]
R package for electricity forecasting released
Rob Hyndman and Shu Fan have released an R package for electricity demand forecasting. It's based on their paper "Density forecasting for long-term peak electricity demand", published in 2010. From the project's Github page: The package requires the following data as input: - half-hourly/hourly electricity demands - half-hourly/hourly temperatures at one or two locations - seasonal … [Read more...]