With that in mind, and inspired by a Cycling News article, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at how Cadel Evans (or Cuddles to his friends in the media) won the Maillot Jaune after resolutely keeping with the Schlecks in the mountains and then thrashing through the Time Trial.
To do this, I scraped the results of each of the 21 stages of the Tour (code will appear shortly) and then used Tableau Public to visualise the results predominantly using a Bump Chart, which shows how each rider compares to the average at each stage. Statistical Skier has produced some excellent analysis of the results and presented them similarly here.
Within the visualisation, it's possible to look at how a rider has done - just right click on their name and choose the highlight option.
It's also interesting to look at how multiple riders have done. One way of doing this is to filter down the list of riders based on their ranking or team, selecting these riders from the list below and then highlighting or filtering on these riders using a right click - for example, the battle between Evans and the Schlecks, or the performance of Thomas Voeckler.
Hi dotlinking,
ReplyDeleteNice work but I cannot seem to choose riders for comparison. I have even downloaded the workbook into Tableau desktop and get a little better functionality (i.e., I can see the other rider names that can be used for comparison), however, the bump chart remains the same as shown above. I wonder if anyone else has tried to use this chart.
Thanks for the creative approach - it's a great idea.
Ken
Thanks Ken, I'll play with the functionality and see what I can do to improve it.
ReplyDeleteI have to say Mark I'm a great admirer of your work. Always an interesting perspective and very different from the approach I would take. Excellent!
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