Update: The final ranking is available HERE.
The second exam of my Energy Analytics course this semester is a probabilistic load forecasting competition. The competition rules are listed below:
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The second exam of my Energy Analytics course this semester is a probabilistic load forecasting competition. The competition rules are listed below:
- The competition will start on 10/22/2015, and end on 11/25/2015.
- The historical data will be released on 10/22/2015.
- The year-ahead hourly probabilistic load forecast is due on 11:45am ET each Wednesday starting from 10/28/2015.
- The exam is individual effort. Each student form a single-person team. No collaboration is allowed.
- The student can not use any data other than what's provided by Dr. Tao Hong and the U.S. federal holidays.
- Pinball loss function is the error measure in this competition.
- The benchmark will be provided by Dr. Tao Hong. A student receive no credit if not beating the benchmark nor ranking top 6 in the class.
- No late submission is allowed.
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