Many of the raw numbers make no sense. I'd rather get rid of them and replace them with values that can actually be used as-is.
I believe each data category has it's own set of terms for what the number description represent. In my overall opinion, I think the .raw category is great to have if you have the description of what each number represents. The text for the numbers appear sometimes in place in what I call the common category column. (Example; flycState= common category and flycState.raw= raw category.) To better explain what I'm referring to, I pasted a copy of the OSD.flycState.raw descriptions below. This info can be found on @BudWalker website here: .CSV Column Descriptions Btw, he has done a awesome job gathering the info.
OSD.flycState.raw
Manual(0), Atti(1), Atti_CL(2), Atti_Hover(3), Hover(4), GPS_Blake(5), GPS_Atti(6), GPS_CL(7), GPS_HomeLock(8), GPS_HotPoint(9), AssitedTakeoff(10), AutoTakeoff(11), AutoLanding(12), AttiLangding(13), NaviGo(14), GoHome(15), ClickGo(16), Joystick(17), Atti_Limited(23), GPS_Atti_Limited(24), OTHER(100)