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  "id": 5650,
  "title": "tag off by more than 30 minutes?",
  "url": "/competitions/belkin-energy-disaggregation-competition/discussion/5650",
  "author_name": "Noam Tene",
  "post_date": "2013-09-04T13:56:07.307000",
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  "content": "<p>The second dishwasher &quot;Off&quot; tag for H2 had no significant activity within the minute just after it or for that matter anywhere near it. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>It seems to me that the last activity for that second dishwasher operation was about 33 minutes earlier. &nbsp;I got used to tags being a few full minutes off but 33 minutes of human error seems a bit excessive.</p>\n<p>A dishwasher &quot;Off&quot; signal is not human activated like turning off a light which requires action. &nbsp;If you don't expect the human tagger to sit and wait two hours for the dishwasher to turn itself off, it does make sense that the label would be late by several minutes.</p>\n<p>What I do not understand is how this got past TWO different people at Belkin who were supposed to &quot;sift through all of the data and mark event start and stop times in case they were incorrectly labeled by the original human tagger&quot;.</p>\n<p>If this got past them, it makes you wonder what else did.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "postDate": "2013-09-04T13:56:07.307Z",
      "content": "<p>The second dishwasher &quot;Off&quot; tag for H2 had no significant activity within the minute just after it or for that matter anywhere near it. &nbsp;</p>\n<p>It seems to me that the last activity for that second dishwasher operation was about 33 minutes earlier. &nbsp;I got used to tags being a few full minutes off but 33 minutes of human error seems a bit excessive.</p>\n<p>A dishwasher &quot;Off&quot; signal is not human activated like turning off a light which requires action. &nbsp;If you don't expect the human tagger to sit and wait two hours for the dishwasher to turn itself off, it does make sense that the label would be late by several minutes.</p>\n<p>What I do not understand is how this got past TWO different people at Belkin who were supposed to &quot;sift through all of the data and mark event start and stop times in case they were incorrectly labeled by the original human tagger&quot;.</p>\n<p>If this got past them, it makes you wonder what else did.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>"
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