Take that vector graphics animation! For an explanation, see my previous effort. Reminder: This should work in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. But consider it experimental. Reloading the page should restart the animation. I confirmed that this won’t work in Firefox, and that the one SVG plugin for Firefox has been discontinued by Adobe (although apparently […]
Tagged animation, cycling, tour de franceThis was just too cool for me not to put up on the site, even though I’m not completely happy with it. The data are fairly simple: add up the sprint and mountain points across all riders on a Tour de France team for each stage. So for each stage, each team gets the ordered […]
Tagged animation, climbing, cycling, Sprint, tour de franceIf you’re like me, you follow bike racing enough to grasp the basics and be familiar with most of the big names. Â I’ll typically follow the TdF fairly closely, but other than that my cycling news consumption pretty much consists of whatever cool stuff Cosmo happens to write about. That means that when the TdF […]
Tagged cycling, tour de franceI’ve fussed in the past about the weaknesses of FIS points in distance events, but they really are quite useful. Â Sprint events, however, just don’t have an equivalently simple and useful numerical summary. Â I’ve resorted to using the final finishing rank (i.e. what place you came in, after the elimination rounds), but I’ve never been […]
Tagged Analysis, Athlete Ranking, Sprint, technicalSo I decided that updating these every day would get tedious. Â Here’s the standard bumps chart after stage 14 and the corresponding average speed bumps chart is below the fold:
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de franceNow that I’m back from travelling for a bit (but only for a bit) things were a little more busy this week at Statistical Skier. I debuted an interesting way to mine skiing results data to search for skiers with similar careers and used it to look at “similar” skiers to Beckie Scott. I reproduced […]
Tagged week in reviewCommenter ryank asks if I can color code the lines for each rider according to their team. Â I can, but it doesn’t lead to a great looking plot. Â The reason is that there are just way too many teams and distinguishing that many colors just isn’t pleasant. But I’m nothing if not responsive to my […]
Tagged bump chart, cycling, tour de france