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Mushing Tech: The Yukon Quest on GPS or Google Earth
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Thursday, February 5, 2015. The Yukon Quest on GPS or Google Earth. Last year, we provided some Iditarod track files. For quite a large number of software applications. This year, for the Quest, I've prepared copies of the most popular file types:. For use with Google Earth. For use with compatible GPS units, such as Garmin's. KMZ file loaded into Google Earth. If it is helpful or useful, I'd be glad. February 6, 2015 at 8:23 AM. Regardi...
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Mushing Tech: October 2014
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Tuesday, October 14, 2014. A look at 2013 Quest runtimes. It's looking like this year's Yukon Quest. Has a pretty good field of entries. So, I've taken my own spreadsheets from 2013 and used them as a basis for running some numbers. In particular, I've created a spreadsheet. Containing runtime 2013 checkpoint data and. Again, this is largely to create a baseline dataset for comparison with this year. However, I also ran some correlations...
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Mushing Tech: May 2014
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Saturday, May 31, 2014. Recently there's been some discussion of instant beer for backpacking or other backcountry travel. After all, beer is almost entirely water and water's really heavy, so if the water can be eliminated and added later, the problem is basically solved (well, almost). Sounded promising but turned out to be a hoax, but in the meantime Pat's Backcountry Beverages. And the drink concentrate:. Also, your basic low bar:.
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Mushing Tech: November 2014
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Monday, November 24, 2014. Following up on my previous post. On 2013 Quest statistics, I've gone back, cleaned up my 2011 data, and run some numbers on that. What I found was pretty consistent with the 2013 numbers, except that there were a few surprises in the numbers that actually helped tell the story of the race. If you've been following the Yukon Quest. And Sebastian Schnuelle's ice-caked boots in Central told a story, as well:.
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Mushing Tech: September 2014
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Monday, September 1, 2014. It looks like there's a new GPS-based event tracking application, RaceBeacon. Fan, for reasons I'll go into in the next paragraph), it's always great to see some competition in this space. If you've used them for tracking your event, how did it go? Who's planning on using them this fall or winter? Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Promote Your Page Too. Follow us on Twitter! The Blog is Back!
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Mushing Tech: How to calculate start differentials
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. How to calculate start differentials. Mass starts, where everybody leaves at the same time, are pretty rare in distance dog mushing. Typically the teams start every n minutes, in order of bib number. n is usually two or three minutes. That person's bib number. The last bib number. The interval between starts. 67 - 56 = 11. 11 * 2 = 22. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Promote Your Page Too. Follow us on Twitter! How to calculate start differe...
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Mushing Tech: How to access (and copy!) race spreadsheets
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Thursday, July 30, 2015. How to access (and copy! So, I've made a video showing how to access them and how to make copies for your own use. I haven't figured out how to put clickable links in Youtube videos, but the folder containing the spreadsheets is here. Have fun with it, let me know if you've got questions, and especially. Let me know if you find anything interesting! February 3, 2016 at 11:31 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mushing Tech: February 2015
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Thursday, February 5, 2015. The Yukon Quest on GPS or Google Earth. Last year, we provided some Iditarod track files. For quite a large number of software applications. This year, for the Quest, I've prepared copies of the most popular file types:. For use with Google Earth. For use with compatible GPS units, such as Garmin's. KMZ file loaded into Google Earth. If it is helpful or useful, I'd be glad. Links to this post. This should not ...
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Mushing Tech: December 2014
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Monday, December 22, 2014. Updated SPOT API example. Several years ago I posted some example code. To exercise the SPOT tracker API. Note that the data are simply a JSON-ized version of the data shown at the SPOT API. I've put the code up on Github. As well. The caveats from the previous API post. Let me know if you identify errors in the code or if you have questions! Most of all, have some fun with this. My Wee Tracker /title. Thispoin...
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Mushing Tech: The predictive value of split differences
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Occasional writings on techie aspects of dog mushing and race data. Tuesday, February 3, 2015. The predictive value of split differences. It seems that the format of the Knik 200. Trail was not that much fun for teams, so we had a few mushers who didn't need qualifiers checking out early (that is to say, scratching). But, the format also gave us an opportunity to look at some data that haven't been available in the past for distance racing. In the correlations I ran, the difference in splits was the inde...
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