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Re: 2017 scouting apps question

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Originally Posted by ngreen View Post
I am looking into making an AppSheet app. I read someone that did it last year. All the data is stored in Google Sheets and it works on iPhone and Android.

Others have documented scouting apps here; Thunderscout and 1678's scouting system whitepaper come to mind. Also, a rudimentary search of GitHub reveals some in progress (using terms frc and scouting).

Finally, I'm relying more heavily on the FIRST API (or thebluealliance) this year. For some data, it can be as simple as visiting the web page and copy/paste, but there is more info around about accessing it using scripts (python, R, etc). For analysis, Tableau workbooks worked well for me last year and each team gets free copies, but also can be done in other programs (even Excel -- which honestly has improved data analysis in the newest version, no joke).

Lastly, realize you get alliance scores from the APIs while most want individual scores. OPR (and similar calculations) are useful there and there are some good resources around to learn to do it with scripts, and it can be done on components (like auto, high goal) and not only the final scores.

Do you have an ETA of when this app will be available/know if this will be something you will pursue? Do you know if the app for last year still exists somewhere?

I want to try to see if our team can get electronic scouting this year. We did paper forms, then a couple people put in all the info into a spreadsheet. This was killer.

Our school may have access to iPod Touches, do you know if this would be an option? Also, how will you store data to GSheets if you are offline at a competition?
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