I dive into and analyse daily coal stock reports of Indian thermal power plants for the years 2009-2012. The data is available as part of the Republic of India’s Open Government Data (OGD) Initiative and can be accessed at https://data.gov.in/catalog/coal-statement-thermal-power-stations or by searching for “Coal Statement of Thermal Power Stations” at data.gov.in.
I have arranged the 48 CSV files into a continuous time series data frame. I deal with missing,erroneous, and non-uniform data.
I use three different supervised machine learning algorithms to Forecast whether coal stocks will reach “Super-Critical” state the following (next) day for any given power plant.