Thursday, April 21, 2011

Corvallis 2011 Half-Marathon Infographic

Jessi and I participated in the inaugural Corvallis half-marathon this month. I saw the published results and thought something cool could be done with all that data. I've always enjoyed infographics, and wanted to try making one - this seemed like a perfect opportunity. So, here are 13 facts in honor of the 13 mile race.

(You can click the image to see it full-size and/or download it)


For those of you who like to know such things. I housed all the data in Excel (it was originally in a PDF, I'm so thankful for the text-column feature in Excel) and created views using a pivot table. I made the final charts in Excel and copied them into PowerPoint. I added my own comments and pictures - nothing too fancy. I saved the final slide as a PNG and uploaded it to my server. And now you're reading it somewhere in the world. Pretty neat!

4 comments:

  1. I wasn't able to participate "this year." However, I am looking forward to next year's event. Great information you have provided. Thank you!

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  2. Very cool summary. Thanks.

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  3. Thanks Julie and Wendy. I'm glad you like it.

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  4. Very cool summary. Thanks.

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