Hi Carl.
I haven't tried ECUx Plot yet. To be honest, everything has been done in a bit of a whirlwind over Christmas and New Year when I sort of suddenly realised that I had a small window of spare time to come on here again and start getting involved in interesting discussions, etc. Then I bit the bullet and started investigating setzi's ME7logger whereupon I twigged that with the GUI, it was simple enough for me to use.
After I had played about with it, I realised just how amazingly powerful it is. Then I ordered a cable which only came yesterday and I had about 20 minutes to get a log before going to a family get together!
I'm 100% behind your idea of a statistical load-bearing dyno supported by real-world driving conditions and my motivation for that is to define/populate the common maps with Revo Stage 2 tuned data so that I can learn from a 'good' commercial tune and then feed that knowledge back in to my little tuning awareness document. As you comment, I agree that the part-throttle behaviour is just as interesting and important as WOT behaviour, particularly because I feel that the Revo Stage 2 on my car yields effective performance at part loads too, not just when mashing the throttle.
Anyway, the only thoughts I had last night were about filtering the raw data into a batch of three columns (for each x,y,z
kennfelder obviously) then writing an Excel macro to sort it, populate an internal array, then interpolate it back to original axis sample points and write it to a table in a worksheet in the same format as in my tuning document. Then compare changes from stock to tuned parameters and attempt to understand why the particular changes have been made, etc.
I'm acutely aware though that it's not going to be straightforward to populate all zones of tables (e.g. low nmot, high load and high nmot, low load). Once we've dived in and had a play, we can kick around ideas on the way forward on this thread. I'm up for it! I had a quick look at ggobi. It certainly looks glossy but I reckon I can achieve my goal with Excel and a tidy macro.
TTQS