Data Science Asked by yuyu2809 on June 24, 2021
I want to estimate my daily water consumption. I have taken pictures of the water meters (total m3 used since last reset) every now and then, but without any regularity. There can be a difference of a few days to several weeks between samples.
What would be the best way to estimate this? I have thought of the following approaches:
It seems to me that the first one would give a better estimation given the higher number of samples compared, but I am not sure if this is valid.
If you only want the average daily consumption over the whole period of time, you can simply calculate the difference between the last and first reading and divide by the total number of days.
As far as I understand your explanation:
However if you want to be able to observe the variations across time while smoothing some of the irregularities, you could:
Correct answer by Erwan on June 24, 2021
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