Good Scouting Tablets That Run Tableau

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Originally Posted by logank013

So would you feel that running excel or another simpler program on a tablet and transferring that data to one of our laptops and then put that into tableau would be a better way to scout?

Yes. Tableau is a very extensive program that I don't see working well on a touchscreen tablet, and I doubt it would have the processing power to run it anyway.

Bringing data from multiple tablets helps to guaruntee a better data set that Tableau can analyze. We have 6 tablets (each focuses on 1 robot) and 3+ laptops(lead scouters who watch all robots) that feed information to one "Master" laptop. This "Master" laptop compiles all of the data to give to tableau, which is then redistributed back to multiple laptops.

There is a lot of data transfer involed, and it's mostly done on flash drives. It seems inefficient, but I haven't heard any complaints from the scouting team.

We've been using this scouting system for 2 years now, we love it.