Superior Data Collection
Data Entry Modes
"Multi-entry modes to make centralisation a breeze "
Data entry is easy made because you choose from the entry mode that best suits you. Enter data on the road, on the field, at home, or in the office and the data will always be accessible for professionals. Depending on your location, choose from:
- Laptop
- Mobile phone
- PDA or other windows mobile device
- Tablet computer
- Desktop computer
You can work on-line to add and receive data updates from the central server, or work off-line and the data will be sent when you next login (similar to e-mail). You choose the entry mode, and on-line or off-line option to best suit you.
The Profiler "Magnet"
To make accurate and informed decisions about improving your athlete's performance you need to have as much information as possible. Performance Profiler acts like a magnet, pulling together every piece of data ever collected about an athlete. Each data entry form is built to match your current data collection practices. You can enter, import or automatically integrate all historic data and current data to develop a complete picture of your athlete. This includes:
- Paper records
- Excel spreadsheets
- Existing databases
- Word documents
- Electronic media (such as heart rate monitors)
- GPS data, and other data sources including game, race or event statistics
- Other databases with data such as medical or injury
What type of data?
Profiler captures all of your existing modes of data including any type of training session, psychometric variables, physiotherapy information, injury status and tracking, medical history, drugs and supplements, through to coded game/race/event statistics for each athlete. These types of data can be recorded daily, weekly, or even montly and they are all stored in the correct format for easy access. Profiler also allows you to rapidly customise new types of data entry sheets to gather new information you need to understand performance. From daily lifestyle questionnaires entered by the athletes themselves, to monitoring recovery or sleep quality- the possibilities are endless.
Profiler is unique. Data capture does not start from the time you buy the software. All of your data is stored on Performance Profiler, allowing you to track your athletes from the very first data recorded about them. This historical data ensures that you can develop reference points from which to track and monitor each of your athlete's performance variables. It also gives you the ability to analyse your existing data for any relationships between variables. For example, bench press strength is highly correlated to 3 point success in basketball.
Space and time saving attachments
Performance Profiler allows you to store numerous types of information to develop the complete overview of your athlete. When you login to Performance Profiler and work on-line, all of the latest updates are transferred to your computer via automatic synchronisation. They are then stored with your existing data. This means your data is stored locally so you can access all of your data off-line. However, if you were storing video files, heart rate data and GPS data for every training session and match, that would require a lot of space and be slow to synchronise. To minimise the data storage, you can attach any type of file to an existing data entry form. The attached information is stored on the Profiler secure storage network, not on the central server and is only downloaded onto your computer when you select and open the attachment link.
To gain the most from your attached data, we can customise your data entry forms to extract important information. For example, we can redevelop a phosphate decrement data entry form to extract and store important data directly from a heart rate attachment. If you were gauging level of fatigue between the 10 x 40m sprints, you may want to extract and record heart rate before and after each repetition, or the average 10 repetition heart rate. This data would be stored on the entry form and your heart rate data now has a specific exercise context with which to understand it.
Attachments ensure you can capture ALL of your data, minimise your storage requirements and extract meaningful information to analyse and better understand your athlete's performance.
