Data on forecasting energy prices using machine learning

Abstract

This article contains the data related to the research article “Long-term forecast of energy commodities price using machine learning” (Herrera et al., 2019). The datasets contain monthly prices of six main energy commodities covering a large period of nearly four decades. Four methods are applied, i.e. a hybridization of traditional econometric models, artificial neural networks, random forests, and the no-change method. Data is divided into 80-20% ratio for training and test respectively and RMSE, MAPE, and M-DM test used for performance evaluation. Other methods can be applied to the dataset and used as a benchmark. Keywords: Oil, Natural gas, Coal, ANN