# Predicting multiple steps into the future

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/predicting-multiple-steps-into-the-future/1154>\
**Category:** NuPIC\
**Tags:** usage-help\
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/predicting-multiple-steps-into-the-future/1154 "2016-08-01T11:19:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/predicting-multiple-steps-into-the-future/1154/6 "2016-08-01T15:57:39Z")

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> [@jpedro](#):
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> By doing the change on the clParams I get 1 and 2 step values?

Yes you should. Did you try it?

> [@jpedro](#):
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> The script for the hot gym does shifting when it writes the value on the excel?

Shifting is only done if you are plotting, not when writing to CSV:

> <https://github.com/numenta/nupic-legacy/blob/master/examples/opf/clients/hotgym/prediction/one_gym/run.py#L124-L125>

You can easily change this so that shifting occurs all the time.

> [@jpedro](#):
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> Because I want to get future values that I don’t know. For example, if I have avg values per hour, and the last value of my data occured at 15:00 pm if I run NUPIC with a step of 2 I want to get the value at 17:00 pm that I don’t know yet.

Yes, that’s what should be happening. Run it and let me know what you get?

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