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
It can be a very tough predicament being a recent graduate coming out with an Upper Second Class Honours degree in Media and Communication (Journalism) at Birmingham City University and not finding that first graduate job like I have in July 2017. The networks you have built throughout college and university and you are hitting … Continue reading Figuring out my own rags to riches story
When I look back at my achievements, there's always one thing that I look at and that is my comfort zone (or lack of it). It's fair to say over the past few years, I have gone way outside of my comfort zone like never before and in many respects it has helped me become … Continue reading Getting outside that comfort zone
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
As most people are aware of in the Tableau community on social media, as well as data journalism and my own friendship circles, not a lot of people know about me in terms of my interests, personality and the things I am currently working on at the minute. Here's 10 "fast facts" about me: 1. I … Continue reading 10 Fast Facts about me
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
