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5/21/2020

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hw1 5/21/2020 Question 2.1 Question 2.2 Question 3.1

Question 2.1 My project for a utility company is to identify if a particular customer is stealing electricity by tampering with the meter and bypassing the device that records the amount of kWh the premise is consuming. Customers have been known to use several different methodologies, including installing jumper cables on the meter, to achieve this goal and essentially receive free power for their home. Some predictors I use to feed a model in identifying patterns in such customers include: 1. number of of tamper events - the smart meters register multiple types of events, such as a “removal tamper” event when the meter is pulled out of the base and a “reconnection” event when it is plugged back in 2. kWh - usage recorded on the meter, ex: looking for a period of zero usage following a removal tamper event 3. latitude/longitutde - the relative location of previous theft cases compared to new cases showed a strong correlation as it seems customers who have a similar method of stealing can be duplicated with surrounding neighborhoods 4. property type - residential vs.commercial vs.mobile home vs.vacation home etc. 5. account delinquent nonpayment credit score - customer account level information that is compiled from the billing system to narrow down the behavior of customers

Question 2.2 # s e r b i d a o l library(kernlab) library(kknn) # t e z u s i v n d a o l data...