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Tour de France 2011 – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs – Part 4 – Spark Charts
0The final episode in a series on ADF DVT applied to the Tour de France 2011 results. In this series, I have used many of the ADF DVT Graph components. In this article, I will use the Spark Chart component to integrate condensed data visualizations inside a table with ‘regular’ data.
The result is a table that lists the top 10 of the final overall ranking of the Tour de France, with for each ride in the top 10 two spark charts:
- the positition in the overall standings at the end of each stage
- the gap with Cadel Evans at the end of each stage (needless to say this chart is fairly pointless for Cadel Evans himself)
The resulting page with the table including the two spark charts looks like this:
Note that the Spark Chart for overall rank displays the #1 position at the top and lower rankings towards the bottom.
We can see from the table how for example the number 10 – Peraud – gradually worked his way up in the ranking – while just as gradually getting further behind Cadel Evans. We also see how Voeckler came to the top somewhere midway and then ever so slightly had to let go of that top position. Only the first three days and the last three days saw him behind Evans.
Tour de France 2011 – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs – Part 3 – Distance, Speed and Withdrawals with Pareto, Combination, Stock Chart (High/Low) and Bubble Chart
0Another article on analyzing and visualizing the results from the Tour de France 2011 using the ADF DVT components. This article uses the same set of data already discussed in several previous articles – including the standings per stage as well as the overall standings after each stage. This article will focus on using the combination graph, the bubble graph and the high/low (aka stock) chart for taking a closer look at speed, length and withdrawals (and any connection there can be between these aspects).
Some of the pretty pictures created in this article:
Building Java Object Graph with Tour de France results – using screen scraping, java.util.Parser and assorted facilities
4Last Saturday, the Tour de France 2011 departed. For people like myself, enjoying sports and working on Data Visualizations on the one hand and far fetched uses of SQL on the other, the Tour de France offers a wealth of data to work with: rankings for each stage in various categories, nationalities and teams to group by, distances and velocity, years to compare with one another and the like. So it has been my intention for some time to get hold of that data in a format I could work with.
Today I finally found some time to get it done. To locate the statistics for the Tour de France editions for the last few years and get them onto my laptop and into my database. This article describes the first part of that journey: how to get the stage results from some source on the internet into my locally running Java program in an appropriate object structure.
My starting point is the official Tour de France website:
This website goes back to 2007 and also has the latest (2011) results. It presents the result in a format pleasing to the human eye – based on an HTML structure that is fairly pleasing to my groping Java code as well.
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