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By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:50:09 +0000

Interesting article.

This confirms what I’ve already worked out, when I go abroad (from the UK) the television coverage is generally dire.

Good ol’ BBC!!!

Americans make the best spreadsheet software though, even if the default charts are naff…

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:24:22 +0000

Matt -

I saw an infographic last week comparing the scores of the top six make figure skaters, with respect to the new scoring rules. It was almost interesting for a hockey fan. I tried to Google but couldn’t find a link.

By: Matt Healy

Matt Healy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:57:05 +0000

My biggest beef with their coverage was not among the listed categories: what annoyed me the most was that unless at least one US or Canadian citizen was among the medal contenders the event was unlikely to get televised, and unless at least one person from the US or Canada was on the podium the medal ceremony certainly wasn’t gonna get televised. Are there any readers familiar with coverage in other places, who can tell us whether their networks showed similar biases?

Jon: the complex scoring system used for figure skating would seem a cool place for you to try some data mining…

By: Jeff Weir

Jeff Weir — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:06:53 +0000

Just those pesky grid-lines to go now, Jon: Or too minimalist?

By: Adam Goldsmith

Adam Goldsmith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:34:14 +0000

I got hung up in Jeff Weir’s “Olymipc” typo, but I think that’s more a reflection on me. Personally, I think Jeff’s graph works best in a presentation, but either Jon’s final version or Mike’s stacked graph would work great in a report.