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Winning On Your Birthday

Thanks to a very helpful Bothan (who did not die to bring me this information!) I got a hold of the full birth dates of FIS registered XC skiers. That opens up a whole lot of new territory for me, but first things first: we need to talk about data quality. One minor caveat about […]

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Tour de France: Average Stage Speed

A few notes about this data. The website that I scrape these results from isn’t, shall we say, the most consistent when it comes to the spelling of athlete names, or even their teams. That can make it difficult to slice the data along those dimensions, since it requires a fair bit of work adjusting […]

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Tour de France – Stage 20

The final version of the 2012 Tour graph by team:

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Tour de France – Stage 20

The final versions of the Tour de France graphs, first up the comparison to previous years:  

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Tour de France: Stage 16

Heading into the final weekend of the Tour, here’s how the teams compare: I’ll try to do some wrap up posts with some different looks at the data next week once the Tour is over.

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Tour de France: Stage 15

Another conveniently placed rest day for another Tour update. Since this is a Tuesday, we’re comparing this year’s Tour to previous years, through stage 15:

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Tour de France: Stage 10

It’s Thursday, so that means this graph is broken down by team, just for the 2012 Tour:

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