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Originally Posted by Kathmandu
Team 3374 is in the Curie Division and would be interested in the Crowd Source scouting. We have about 14 team members who are going to scout. Previously we've used a smartphone app, but haven't been very successful with weighting the results. We'd like to learn from how you transfer the data into something useful. To be honest - don't know what json is.
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JSON is a data storage format, much like a spreadsheet, which is (somewhat) human-readable but mainly built for computers to use internally. It's just a generally better way to store data than a proprietary data format, since there are lots of libraries for interacting with JSON in almost any programming language you could want.
To move from JSON to a more useful data format, we use two approaches. The first approach is that we create a spreadsheet (I'm afraid I don't have access to one from our regional yet - it seems that spreadsheet was left on our scouting computer, which is already packed.) with the data by averaging the values on a per-team basis. The second approach is that we use some custom python scripts to create lists of teams based on weighting the factors - for instance, we looked for a high-scoring shooter with a reliable climb by factoring in shooting heavily and then putting in a lesser factor of the climbing points.
If anyone would like to join CrowdScout on Curie:
Please PM me your email address so I can add you to the planning email thread.