These visualizations allow you to bring your own conclusions about the evolution of the sport and its athletes. A wide variety of chopice awaits you, and here is a short presentation of everything that is available.
Before diving into all the different components, take some time to set your parameters. Choose your year using the slider at the bottom and whether you would like to look at the women's or men's results, and you are then good to go!
The top-left component allows you the relive the World Cup ranking evolution as they happened at the time! Who was a main contender? Why did this slalom specialist suddenly participate in downhill events? This visualization tells you everything you need and want to know. Skiers have also the color of their favorite type of event, computed for each season. Instead of letting the animation play out for you, you can simply control it using the slider in the control box.
The map shows all events of a given season. It evolves according to the progression of the season in the bar chart race. When you click on a given event, you can choose which race results you want to display in the top-right panel.
The graph (bottom-middle component) shows how skiers are linked between each other during a given season. You can generally notice a group of technicians and another one of speed specialists. Every skier in-between is versatile and competes in all types of events.
Finally, the bottom-right component links everything together. It displays the information we have about a specific athlete, and shows graphs about the mean number of points he gathers per event, and all his World Cup points during his whole career. Each component is linked to the profile, so you can always know more about this one skier who almost won the Wolrd Cup. There is also a search bar with autocomplete available!
To non-specialists, here is a small dictionary:
