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Re: Good Scouting Tablets That Run Tableau
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Originally Posted by sciencenuetzel View Post
Has anyone out there used Chromebooks to just gather the data?

What are your thoughts on using a chromebook? I realize that they don't have a touchscreen and they are somewhat limited, but if you just need excel (or something similar to do the data collection, then couldnt it be possible to do the 'heavy number crunching' on a different machine?


(Its helpful that they are so cheap, and that many schools are 1:1 with them)
Not a bad idea since almost every kid on our team already has one from the school. Could use google sheets but that data would need to be transferred to excel since I am pretty sure Tableau doesn't like fetching data from an internet program but, I may be wrong. And obviously we would transfer the data to a better machine since tableau can't be run on a low quality chromebook.
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