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How to decipher all that data you logged | Articles

How to decipher all that data you logged | Articles

Whenever we publish a story on data acquisition, we fill it with catchy language like “Data acquisition is more accessible and affordable than ever!” And it’s true. But that proclamation doesn’t really help someone who’s never used data acquisition before, or someone who’s dabbled but is still working to separate the signal from the noise when it comes to interpreting those wavy lines.

So let’s talk about turning those squiggles into speed. What, exactly, should you pay attention to, even if you have just minutes or even seconds to review your data in between sessions?

For this discussion, we’ll focus mostly on using data acquisition to tune your driving, not necessarily your car. Data collection aimed at car tuning generally requires a bit more hardware and complexity, but we’ll touch on that, too. 

The cool part about data collection for driver analysis is that the simplest outputs can provide a wealth of information. Even the most…

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