data visualization

Crossfit Games 2020: Events 5-7

This post continues the series of posts looking at the 2020 Crossfit Games.

Crossfit Games 2020: Events 3 and 4

This post continues the series of posts looking at the 2020 Crossfit Games. The previous post that covers events 1 and 2 is here.

Crossfit Games 2020: Events 1 and 2

The Crossfit Games are happening in 2020, though in a different format. The first 7 events will be completed by the athletes (30 men and 30 women) at their home gyms.

MAA Basic Library List: Book Topics

Some time ago, I took an exploratory look at the BLL (Basic Library List) published by the MAA (Mathematical Association of America). In this list, each book is tagged with “topics,” and can have a single topic or multiple topics. At the time I wrote my previous post, I didn’t know of a good way to visualize the distribution of topics. I could isolate each topic (for example “History of Mathematics”) and count the books that had this topic, but this doesn’t show combinations of topics and how they overlap in a nice way.

The Distribution of Views of The Joe Rogan Experience

Elon Musk has been in the news recently, and when I saw that he appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), I became curious about the number of views that various JRE podcasts get. I grabbed the view data from Youtube on May 8, 2020. Here are the top 30 most-viewed videos on the PowerfulJRE channel: Musk’s first appearance on #1169 has by far the most views of any JRE episode - almost 35 million!