How to build a challenge dashboard: Why should you watch the Tour de France?
Power BI Tour de France infographic
About this project
Introduction
This infographic is built for the Maven Tour de France challenge
The goal is to help increase the race's popularity around the world by creating an infographic-style visual to educate new viewers, highlight the magnitude of the event, and build anticipation for this year's race (July 2023).
The Data
Historical dataset on every Tour de France from 1903 to 2022, including details on the stages, distance, entrants, finishers, and winning times for each year.
The Analysis
Because an infographic was asked, there wasn't that much need to analyze the data, I googled, used Chat GPT and my own imagination, to get a top 5 list with statements that would help to get people to cross the line and go watch the Tour de France.
When that to 5 was set, I thought about a nice fact to tell and a single metric to show for each of them.
The Visuals
I used 5 new Card visuals for the 5 statements.
In these new Cards, which I aligned all in the center, I used
- a title for the statement
- a subtitle for the fact
- a divider
- a metric, loud and clear
- a label that describes the metric
The Key Insights
Hopefully, the 5 statements, short and stimulating, give the key insights needed to reach new viewers
For me, the metric about reaching Paris, is the most insightful, only 63% on average, reach the finish line.
The Design
In June we had a Boost session about drawing infographics at the office. I learned about the strength of keeping it clean and simple, to the point.
When I was thinking about how to make a to-the-point infographic, I had to think about the one I made about eating Keto, see below.
The main principles I've copied from that one are,
- 1 central visual, the map of France with the route of 2023
- 5 equal card visuals are positioned around the map, all with the same letter types and size, mirrored left and right
- fully black and yellow, the colors of the Tour
- a black border
- and finally a black and yellow banner with the main question and the Tour de France we are talking about, July 2023
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