Georges Hébrail,
Practical data mining in a large utility company,
In Jelke G. Bethlehem and Peter G. M. Van Der Heijden eds., COMPSTAT 2000 - Proceedings in Computational
Statistics, 14th Symposium,
Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 55-66, Physica Verlag, August 2000.We present in this paper the main applications of data mining techniques at Electricité de France, the French national electric power company. This includes electric load curve analysis and prediction of customer characteristics. Closely related with data mining techniques are data warehouse management problems: we show that statistical methods can be used to help to manage data consistency and to provide accurate reports even when missing data are present.