Data Mining

Data mining is one of the most exciting areas in AI. Most organizations have (and are collecting) massive amounts of data in their databases - for example, purchases in a store, transactions in a bank, student performances in a test, patients data in health care organizations, stock market index data, etc. Analysis of these data could reveal important information of interest to the organization like the customer behavior patterns and preferences. You may know more about this field here: A short tutorial on data mining .

At C-DAC, Mumbai, we have worked on a data mining project for forecasting of power consumption.

Neural Network based forecasting of power consumption:
For an external client, as part of a large project on electric power management, we developed a module for forecasting electric power consumption in a building. The system used a neural network model for prediction. The input factors include ambient temperature, pressure, holiday/working day, weekday/weekend, humidity, etc. Backpropagation algorithm was used for training the feedforward multilayer perceptron network.