Makeover Monday reaches Week 9 of 52 in 2018 as this week's Makeover looks at World Economic Freedom since 1970-2015. This was another interesting challenge as the dataset had some gaps which meant consistent sense checking to ensure my data was accurate and correct when putting together the viz. Original Viz What I like The … Continue reading Makeover Monday 2018 – Week 9 – World Economic Freedom since 2000-2015
Although it's been a quiet couple of weeks on the blogging front, it has definitely given me time to find something to blog about. As it's the start of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship season this week, it seemed fitting to do a viz on Rallye Monte Carlo, the season-opener to the premier rally class in motorsport. I … Continue reading Visualising Rallye Monte Carlo
As the 2017 United States F1 Grand Prix took place on the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas a few days ago, something caught my eye at the US GP and that was the Driver Presentations before the race. In the near-20 years watching the sport, it was something of the unknown as boxing Master of … Continue reading F1 and Michael Buffer – A weird combination at the 2017 US GP
Whilst I have been very up and down with my Makeover Monday contributions as of late due to the never-ending graduate job hunt, Week 42 surprised me a bit as the team pulled out a dataset on Formula E results going from the first season (2014/15) to the most recent season (2016/17). When I first saw the dataset being … Continue reading Makeover Monday Week 42 – di Grassi v. Buemi
In 1997, a new era for Formula One began as ITV paid £60m to prise the TV rights from the BBC in a four-year deal. A lot has changed in the UK TV coverage of the sport over the last 20 years, not to mention the current deal with Sky and Channel 4 which ends next season before Sky have exclusive coverage from … Continue reading In defence of Steve Jones as Channel 4’s F1 presenter
Families, car enthusiasts and photographers turned out to celebrate Ferrari's 70th Anniversary in Birmingham. 70 Ferrari cars that were worth in excess of £15 million descended onto Victoria Square as they were showcased outside the Town Hall and Council House. It's one of four events in the UK that the Italian manufacturer are holding as … Continue reading Birmingham fills with red as Ferrari celebrate 70th anniversary
You have probably heard the news a few days ago that the motorsport governing body, the FIA have introduced the halo head protection system for the 2018 Formula One season. A halo? You are probably thinking the multi-million best-selling XBOX video game series from Microsoft Studios. Wrong concept, it's not the the video game but the controversial head protection … Continue reading Head protection systems and halos – F1’s stickiest situation
For the last couple of months, I have been freelancing at an online motorsport magazine website called theCheckeredFlag.co.uk. It's been one of my goals to write for the site for two years, and when I did impress on my trial article, I had finally achieved that goal, which gave me nothing but motivation to make … Continue reading Views and thoughts from freelancing at The Checkered Flag so far
Another day, another week where I claw through the array of sports stories on the internet and the media that I read on an endless daily basis. I did find myself yesterday afternoon at university reading through a particular article on the BBC Sport website on the F1 section titled "Bernie Ecclestone: Women drivers in … Continue reading OPINION: High-speed sports sexism at its worst
Usually it's not very often that a dream has come true for me, but yesterday was one of those days as I made my first trip to Silverstone with The Scratch as Sports Editor to the Northamptonshire circuit. It was definitely a first impression that left a lasting legacy in my career thus far. As … Continue reading THROWBACK: Scratch at Silverstone: My thoughts
