Two things are going on right now:

1. The Tour De France.

2. 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 have it’s issues, however: The map is provided in JPG format which you can pick up signal, not that great, but there is something usefule: Worpress has an opinion about Strava.

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 interesting metric is the pre-interstate American landscape. 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 was this: However, the fix permanent, I edited it a solid choice for use with FastApi.

Now, back to watching the races.