Good Scouting Tablets That Run Tableau

[Jacob Bendicksen]

Originally Posted by bkahl

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.

We do something similar - 6 Nexus 7s feed information via post-match USB connection to a master laptop or 2 running Tableau. The Nexuses (Nexi?) are running our custom scouting application, and we have another custom app on another Nexus that our drive coach carries around. She gets the information via a pre-match USB drive that someone runs down from the stands to the pit.

It can get a little complicated, but we end up with a ton of useful data, and it's worked well in more or less this form for a while (we switched from iPads to Nexus 7s last year and never looked back).