Melbourne Datathon 2020

Can Electricity Consumption Patterns Tell Us Anything About The Pandemic?

Data2App

Electricity Consumption in Australia

A user-interactive data visualisation app developed in R Shiny that recites a story about how Australia consumes its electricity.

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Setup on your local system

• Download and Install R in your system

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/

• Download and Install RStudio in your system

https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

• Clone this repository into your system

git clone https://github.com/akale1994/Melbourne-Datathon-2020.git

• Open the below files in RStudio

Data2App > App > server.R
Data2App > App > ui.R

• Install the required libraries

Uncomment the library installation code before running the app if the respective libraries are not installed

• Run the app

Click on 'Run App' as shown below

Insights

A Causal Forecasting Model built using Multi-layer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network

The model learns on pre Covid-19 data and forecasts the electricity prices in Victoria for the Covid-19 lockdown period in Victoria, Australia.

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Setup on your local system

• Download and install Python in your system

https://www.python.org/downloads/

• Download and install Anaconda in your system

https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/

• Download and install Jupyter Notebook in your system

https://jupyter.org/install/

• Clone this repository into your system

git clone https://github.com/akale1994/Melbourne-Datathon-2020.git

• Open and run the notebook from Jupyter Notebook

Root directory > MelbourneDatathon.ipynb