About
The London Marathon is an annual 26.2 mile foot race that draws tens of thousands of runners from around the world. Participants run past many of London's most famous landmarks including The Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge, Canary Wharf, and Buckingham Palace, before crossing the finish line in St. James Park. The race first took place in 1981 and is one of the six marathons that make up the Abbott World Marathon Majors series.
Learn more about the finishers of this iconic race! Runners and non-runners alike can use this website to explore the results of every London Marathon held between 2014 and 2022, except the 2020 event where the mass participation race was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The underlying dataset was obtained from Kaggle (here) and originally created by scraping the London Marathon's official results website. The dataset was pre-processed using Python scripts. The visualizations were created using Tableau Desktop and are hosted on Tableau Public.
This website was created by Michael Lu and Chris Wyble for the UC Berkeley School of Information's Data Visualization and Communication (DATASCI 209) class during the Fall 2023 semester. Your questions and feedback are welcome. Contact the website's creators here.
This website is best viewed on devices capable of displaying content with a minimum width of 1,366 pixels.
Insights
The following are some of the insights the project team uncovered in its analysis of the dataset.
Explore
Now, explore the dataset for yourself! What other insights can you uncover?
The visualization below is interactive! The Finish Times and Distribution of Finish Times can be filtered by Nationality, Gender, Year, and/or Event and Runner Type.
Definitions:
- Nationality: National origin as reported by the runner
- Gender: Gender (male or female) as reported by the runner
- Year: The calendar year in which the London Marathon was held
- Event: Two separate races are held during each running of the London Marathon. Professional runners race in the "Elite Event" for prize money, while everyone else races in the "Mass Event".
- Runner Type: "Club Runners" are runners who are affiliated with running clubs. Everyone else is a "Non-Club Runner".
To apply a filter:
- Select a single item by clicking on it
- Select multiple items by pressinging the Command (Mac)/Control (Windows) key while clicking on each item
- Select a map region by pressing the left mouse button and dragging the mouse over the region
To clear a filter:
- De-select an item by clicking on it a second time
- Clear all selections in a single filter by clicking on any white space in the component
- Clear all filters by clicking the reset button in the bottom toolbar
Tool tips containing additional information are displayed when your mouse hovers over items in the visualizations.
Reset the map view by clicking on the home button in the upper left corner of the map.
Dot Race
Dot races are a staple at American sporting events to keep fans entertained during breaks in athletic play. In the spirit of dot races, the visualization below shows the top, median, and last finishers at each London Marathon racing towards the finish line at 26.2 miles. Select a year, then press play (triangle icon pointing to the right) to get the runners on their way!
Each runner's distance in the race is an estimate based on their overall finish time, assuming they ran an even pace from the start line to the finish line. More granular timing data would be required to accurately depict each runner's distance in the race as time elapsed.
Contact
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Michael Lu
mikelu@berkeley.edu @Michael Lu |
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Chris Wyble
chris_wyble@berkeley.edu @Chris Wyble |