Start with the data

For now, let’s not worry about creating the Android app; you’ll get to that soon enough. Instead, let’s solve the central data wrangling problem and then, when you have a working solution, we’ll worry about porting your solution to Android. We’ll begin by getting the data into a format you can easily process with Python.

Most spreadsheet programs can export data to the widely used CSV format. The club has done this for you and created a file called PaceData.csv, which includes the data for each of the rows from the original the spreadsheet.

Here’s a sample of the raw data from the start of the CSV: