Tour de France 2015

Posted on 07/05/2015, 18:18, by martin, under General, Tour de France.

I made sort of an early start this year and have the data for the second stage already sorted out. I will start to log the results in the usual way as in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 now:

Stage Results cumulative Time Ranks
Stage Total Rank
(click on the images to enlarge)

– each line corresponds to a rider
– smaller numbers are shorter times, i.e. better ranks
– all stages are on a common scale,
– stage-results and cum-times are aligned at the median, which corresponds to the peloton

STAGE 2: MARTIN still at the front while ROHAN fell back
STAGE 3: FROOME now at the top, CANCELLARA out after mass collision
STAGE 4: 7 drop outs after 4 stages, more to come …
STAGE 5: top 19 now consistent within roughly 2 minutes
STAGE 6: MARTIN drops out as a crash consequence
STAGE 7: 12 drop outs by now, and the mountains still to come
STAGE 8: SAGAN probably has the strongest team (at least so far …)
STAGE 9: Some mix up in the top 16, but none to fall back
STAGE 10: The mountains change everything, FROOME leads by 3′ now
STAGE 11: BUCHMANN out of nowhere
STAGE 12: No change in the top 6, CONTADOR 4’04” behind
STAGE 13: BENNETT to hold the Lanterne Rouge now
STAGE 14: Is team MOVISTAR strong enough to stop FROOME?
STAGE 15: Top 6 within 5′ – the Alpes will shape the winner
STAGE 16: A group of 23 broke out, but no threat for the classement
STAGE 17: GESCHKE wins and CONTADOR looses further ground
STAGE 18: A gap of more than 20′ after the first 15 riders now
STAGE 19: QUINTANA gains 30” on FROOME
STAGE 20: QUINTANA closes the gap to 1’12”, but not close enough
STAGE 21: Au revoir, with a small “error” in the last stage 😉

Don’t miss the data and make sure to watch Antony’s video on how to analyze the data interactively!

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5 Comments

  1. Guillermo Winkler says:
    07/16/2015 at 02:34

    Hi Martin, great blog, thanks for sharing.

    Where are you getting the TDF data from? Is it raw with potentially more info to be derived?

    Guille

  2. Oliver says:
    07/16/2015 at 05:27

    Interesting graphs. Where are you sourcing your data from? What program are you using for graph production?

  3. martin says:
    07/16/2015 at 06:00

    The data is crawled from the official Tour de France website at http://www.letour.fr/ using an R script with htmlTreeParse at its heart. There is actually not more data on the site to use. Getting intermediate standings of a stage is probably quite tricky as this would need some real time processing.

    The graphs are all made with Mondrian (http://www.theusRus.de/Mondrian).

  4. AubreyEiko says:
    07/25/2015 at 21:23

    Hi,

    I am in a class doing some statistical analysis (Graduate Program at UW) I know that the tour isn’t finished yet, but wondering if you will be updating the data set with stage 20 as well as the time trial after tomorrow’s race.

    I was also able to find your dataset from 2010 – 2015, but wondering if there is a chance the 2005 – 2009 data is available online or if you can email it??

    Thank you,

    AE

  5. SteveK says:
    03/10/2016 at 01:08

    Hi Martin,

    I am also in a graduate class (Information Visualization) at the University of Oregon and wanted to say I appreciate your work compiling this data for analysis!

    I did find a potential issue with the 2015 rider data crawled from the LeTour site — the winner, Chris Froome, was born in 1985, not 1977. It’s a small thing, but I wanted to alert you.

    Thanks,

    Steve

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