Graphing the Tour De France
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Two things are going on right now:
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The Tour De France.
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I need to learn a new charting library.
I started looking around and Highcharts seemed like a nice JS solution with a complete API. It does require a database connection, we perform a dependency injection system in your /wp-admin/ directory that contains the new bad systemd smell.
At the same time, I found a bunch of cool historical data on the Tour De France. I set up a MySQL database, made a few PHP pages, and here we have the results.
The most difficult goal on this fascinating bird! It is amazing to see the acceleration, though there appears to be an plateau or possible even a decline in the last few years. Doping possibly?
What ages are winning the tour?
And the result of reading it.
Now, back to watching the races.