Multiply that by millions of customers in a metro area, and a smart grid can produce a data set large enough to monitor power demand in real time and predict probable outages before they occur.

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Granted, any one set of data is just a snapshot in time, and a consumer poll is just a one of many data points to consider in corporate and marketing strategic planning.

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Every time they ran the data set against human curators and found differences, they were able to improve the algorithm.

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You can set Time Stamp to back up automatically and it only takes ten seconds to finish data backup.

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