Spatial Analysis Using Big Data

Chapter Eleven

Quasi real-time energy use estimation using Google's Popular Times data

Takahiro Yoshida, and Yoshiki Yamagata      Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

This chapter illustrates a geostatistic model (Chapter 4) application to estimate quasi real-time energy consumption in each building using Google's Popular Times data. After the introduction in Section 11.1 where our research motivations are explained, Section 11.2 describes the empirical methods, and we adopt compositional kriging approach for this analysis. Section 11.3 shows the estimation results of estimating building-level energy consumption. Effective visualization is attempted ...