Monday, 22 July 2013

Cambridge Town Bumps 2013

This time last year I rowed in the town bumps for the first time with Xpress Boat Club as a novice 'oarsman'.  It was exciting and nerve-racking in equal measure, generally exhausting, but above all a lot of fun.  I also created my own interactive version of the bumps charts using Tableau, which you can read all about here.

This years bumps has now finished and so it's time to publish this years chart. Not many changes from last year's attempt, but I have added a Summary sheet to record blades, spoons, headships etc.  I'll also try and get the bump location info from the main CRA bumps website.  In the meantime, here it is:




If you see any errors please let me know.

I'm also thinking about building an historical bumps interactive tracking the rise and fall of crews and clubs over the years.  Unfortunately most of the historical bumps charts on the CRA site are static images and manually coping in years of results would drive me bonkers, so if anyone knows where I might be able to find or get access to the data in a machine readable format (csv, json, html, xml, etc etc...) then let me know.

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