Pre-Scouting Ideation

[Leafonthewind]

Originally Posted by jlmcmchl

Tableau is designed to extend your use of Excel/Access/etc. It's pretty cool, if you watch the videos they have online it feels like a natural next step. I would highly suggest that you play with it and get the feels for it; It's better at showing you what you want to see than excel can.

We looked on the Tableau website and watched the videos. We used it to help organize the data for our FTC team, and it was extremely helpful. We used Microsoft Access as the main database because you can input data sets faster than excel (though it doesn't matter whether you use Access or Excel because they both work just as well).

I don't know how much we will use Tableau during competition, but it looks like it will be extremely good at comparing teams. It has a filter feature so you can sort out teams.