Quick Viz – Australian Grand Prix
I seem to have no free time to do anything this week, or next, or the week after, so this is just a another placeholder – a couple of quick views over some of Hamilton’s telemetry from the Australian Grand Prix.
First, a quick Google Earth to check the geodata looks okay – the number labels on the pins show the gear the car is in:
Next, a quick look over the telemetry video (hopefully I’ll have managed to animate this properly for the next race…)
And finally, a Google map shows the locations where the pBrakeF (brake pedal force?) is greater than 10 %.
Oh to have some time to play with this more fully…;-)
PS for alternative views over the data, check out my other F1 telemetry data visualisations.
Excellent use of electronic resources – I love how you’ve managed to map what Lewis does to specific points on the map :D
Alianora La Canta
March 31, 2010 at 11:02 am
The Mclaren telemetry includes latitude and longitude information. I paste a dump of this grabbed during the race into a Google spreadsheet, and then pass it through a Yahoo Pipe which can be persuaded to generate a KML output. Pasting the URL of the KML output from the pipe into a Google map search box loads the markers onto a Google Map. (The KML can also be viewed via Google Earth.)
There’s a related howto here for generating and consuming the KML:
http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/simple-embeddable-twitter-map-mashup/
As far as getting content out of a Google spreadsheet and into a Yahoo Pipe goes, this is a nice demo:
http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/
I will post something more specific after the Easter break…
Tony Hirst
March 31, 2010 at 3:52 pm