I have been toying around with F1 data and python plots, and got some average gap graphics in gif form, starting at Bahrain and up to Italy.
- Team Averages (only Q1): https://imgur.com/a/f4nBIO6
- Driver Q1 averages: https://imgur.com/a/kkJABGV
- Driver Q2 averages: https://imgur.com/a/VLhdOta
- Driver Q3 averages: https://imgur.com/a/ZFsGCzy
They are gifs, so check your wi-fi upon entering because there are many on each page, obviously.
Would have posted a few examples here, but apparently Lemmy is not keen on it. Hope imgur's servers do not crap out on me.
Examples:
- McL's averages: https://i.imgur.com/1nWQ1GT.gif
- Intra-team qualy battles: https://i.imgur.com/ayVxwJI.gif
16 Comments
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 1y
So I Iove this initiative and would definitely want to see more! If I can give a bit of feedback, ordering the y-axis by pace gap instead of alphabetically would make the graphs neater and the data easier to parse.
f1ip@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Thank you, and glad you like it. There is more, yes. About qualy and about many other things. Just trying to gauge interest, as I only recently joined.
I did that in the first go. However, once things started moving about as the gaps went up and down, it became impossible to follow in gif format. I quickly lost whatever I was focusing on, so I thought that knowing where things will be in the next would help with getting the ebb and flow of the gaps.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 1y
I see your point when viewing the GIFs as time lapse - which is maybe the intention here? I had to pause at every new slide anyway to go through the data so that thought didn't occur to me.
f1ip@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I thought about posting images, but with 16 images for each driver, that album would be rather large...
smeg@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
You could have a single non-animated graph with time/race on the x-axis, the gap (or whatever other data) on the y-axis, and a separate point for each team (joined to make a line graph). It would solve the issue of too many graphs, though you might have to experiment so it doesn't end up too cluttered!
f1ip@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, I did try that, but it became REALLY cluttered once it got to about 10 races.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 1y
It all depends on what you are after. An album for each driver would be the best way to study the data, while time lapses like this are fine as a "huh, neat" type diversion. I'd also suggest using the team colors for the bars even in the driver graphs so you can easily identify who is who. As is I can't discern what the orange-to-blue color gradient is representing?
f1ip@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah, I do that in the other plots, but I tried to make something a bit more colourful on these, plus on the drivers, there would be repeated colours for the 2 drivers of all other teams.
I might do images and gifs in individual albums, yeah, so you can see the progression and also check out the details. Need to find a way to automate that process, though, because it will be annoying to do.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 1y
Repeated colors aren't really a problem, in fact the opposite! You want to quickly be able to identify the drivers and the teams and easily scan the graphs.
f1ip@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
The team gaps do us the teams' colours, with a bit of an edit for better brightness. Alpine is pink because we have too many blues already.
But my non-designer brain wants more pretty colours in the drivers' one. I might re-run them with team colours and see what happens. Thank you very much for all the feedback so far, it is much appreciated!
smeg@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Lemmy seems happy enough showing me this, can you see it on your client?
Great visualisations, always happy to see more!
f1ip@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yep. But it would not let me upload with the post, kept getting an error due to size.
Maybe it is because I am a new sign-up? Would make sense to depend against trolls and stuff like that.
smeg@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Ah yeah, I know some instances restrict uploads for new users to prevent spam, that's probably what's happening here
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
GIFs are huge files for the information they contain. MP4 or WebP are good options, but I don’t know if Lemmy supports them the way they do GIFs.
f1ip@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, I honestly rather burden the imgur servers with the files and have people click the links they want. No sense spending resources that can be extracted from somewhere else.