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Hello and welcome to another data science themed blog post, this time with a focus on energy disaggregation (aka non intrusive load monitoring or NILM - I know this sounds a bit like a school-yard insult but unfortunately it is not). This is the first in a ser…
Hello whoever is reading this, I'm here with a data science themed blog post for anyone interested in adding a new tool to their predictive modelling/ML toolkit. This post will focus on hyperparameter optimisation - these are the parameters of modelling techni…
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First, introductions - my name is Tom and I work as a Data Scientist in the Engagement Team. What do we do, you ask? Well, as it happens, it’s pretty engaging stuff... Helping members cut their carbon with science Like most folks at OVO over the past 3 month…
We’ve recently published a white paper on the energy savings achieved through various initiatives undertaken by OVO relating to smart meters and their data streams. Since the official national smart meter rollout began in 2016, there has been very little infor…
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A brief departure, perhaps more of a tangent, from the blog series on Analytics at OVO, to share some insights from a careers panel I was at last week. This panel was part of an Operational Research Society event for mathematicians, analysts and data scientist…
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Part 2 of a Data Science at OVO blog series! Part 1 is here. This is perhaps a trick question as the answer depends on where you work, or who you are talking to. But this article might help you understand OVO's take on the topic. A bit of history The fact th…