Subgroup Discovery in Smart Electricity Meter Data

Jin, Nanlin, Flach, Peter, Wilcox, Tom, Sellman, Royston, Thumim, Joshua and Knobbe, Arno (2014) Subgroup Discovery in Smart Electricity Meter Data. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 10 (2). pp. 1327-1336. ISSN 1551-3203

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Abstract

This work presents data mining methods for discovering unusual consumption patterns and their associated descriptive models from smart electricity meter data. At present, data mining and knowledge discovery in electricity meter data suffer from three notable weaknesses: 1) insufficient focus on intelligent data analysis of subgroups (subsets) whose patterns vary significantly from aggregate patterns embodied in an entire dataset; 2) a lack of effort towards generating intuitively understandable and practically applicable knowledge for industrial practitioners to identify such subgroups; and 3) limited knowledge regarding the link between unusual consumption patterns and household consumers' socio-demographic characteristics. This paper addresses these practically important but technically challenging issues by applying subgroup discovery algorithms to a real smart electricity meter dataset. Subgroups whose patterns are unusual and whose sizes are large enough are discovered, and their descriptive and predictive models are generated. Furthermore, to enrich subgroup discovery algorithms, three new-quality measures for real-valued targets are proposed. The comparative studies empirically evaluate the effectiveness and usefulness of subgroup discovery on classification accuracy, predictive power, and computational resources. The methodologies and algorithms presented are generic, and therefore applicable to a wider range of data mining problems.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	data mining, knowledge discovery, time series analysis
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	18 Jun 2014 16:00
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2020 15:42
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/16645

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