KartPulse Looking into Karting Data: Understanding Channel Sorting

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  • Published By : Davin Sturdivant
  • Published On : May 16, 2016
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  • Category : Technical Articles
  • Description : One of the most common errors that users make when working with data acquisition systems, is being involved with “Too much, too soon”. They overwhelm themselves with too much information on the screen, in an order that’s too complicated to understand. Therefore, they don’t use any of it, due to not being able to think through all of it clearly.

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  • One of the most common errors that users make when working with data acquisition systems, is being involved with “Too much, too soon”. They overwhelm themselves with too much information on the screen, in an order that’s too complicated to understand. Therefore, they don’t use any of it, due to not being able to think through all of it clearly.
    One easy tip is to sort the order of the channels that you’ll be viewing your report. Channel sorting allows you to bring up the information that you want to see first and at the top, so that you can find your data at a glance. See the screenshot below to see how to select the Sort Channels button.
     

    One recommendation is to sort your channel configuration in order from ‘most impactful’ to least. Personally, I say to always start with the ‘money channel’ at the top of your list - GPS Speed, as that’s really what we’re looking to try to improve. We want to increase speed, and decrease laptime.  The remainder of the channels you can sort, based on what you find to be most important.

    Remember, once you get past channels that you don’t use, or understand, you can stop sorting. You can always deactivate channels from the main reporting window, so it won’t really matter what order channels are in if you’re not planning to use them.

    Sorting channels is an easy way to get started making your data more manageable from the moment you load Race Studio 2. We can go a step further and configure the screens into specific user profiles, but we’ll get into that in a later article.