iOS Scouting App for 2015

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Originally Posted by samfruth

If not, any ideas on how we could scout matches with iPads? Any input is great.

I have been investigating the same. The school has iPads, so the least cost method is to borrow theirs.

The front-end (data gathering) of the various applications are slick. The back-end seems to be in need of work - What the application does with the data.

Also, there is the issue of merging data from multiple iPads (6 people, each scouting a robot during a match).

The solution that we are going with is:

1) Paper scouting, like we have done before.
2) The 6 paper scouters hand their sheets to a 7th person who has an iPad or laptop.
3) The data is entered into a spreadsheet immediately. The app we use is "Free Spreadsheet", and it saves a CSV file.
4) Using the USB Charging cable, I can attache the iPad to a PC laptop, and use iTunes to transfer the file.
5) Excel can read the CSV file, and import the data into our spreadsheet.
6) The spreadsheet is analyzed. I think they may even use some program to massage the data and spit out results.