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Yesterday’s #unpluggedViz reflecting on its own Yesterday (the race!)

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… and a comparison with running the same distance 10 years ago. Pretty chuffed!
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Cara Thompson

Building Stories with Data

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July 6, 2025

Pace is always a tricky one to depict because the faster you go, the smaller the number is, so the dataviz ends up looking the wrong way round. I went with distance travelled in the time, and I think that does the trick, showing I overtook my past self 🥳

Planning on having a play with the full results in due course, to try to depict where everyone is on the course compared to the finisher, which I think should give a good impression of ranks / speed as we all rush to the finish line. And give me a fun dataset to organise in different ways!

A hand drawn line graph in pencil depicting the difference in time it took to run 21km ten years apart. The top line graph depicts the most recent run which finished four minutes faster than the run 10 years ago, the bottom line graph.

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Thompson, Cara. 2025. “Yesterday’s #unpluggedViz Reflecting on Its Own Yesterday (the Race!).” July 6, 2025. https://www.cararthompson.com/posts/2025-07-06-reflecting-on-yesterdays-race/.