GEC NEWS WIREDimension Data processed between four and six million records per stage to generate race highlights
Dimension Data, the global IT organisation processing and analysing the data coming from trackers under the saddles of riders in the Tour de France, has released a summary of the data the company recorded, processed and analysed across 21 stages of Le Tour.
Dimension Data’s technical team said it processed between 4 million and 6 million records per stage to provide this year’s race highlights. The highest recorded speed on a sprint was 78.48 km/h by John Degenkolb on stage 5. The average recorded speed of the riders across the 21 stages was 38.34 km/h, while the highest average speed was 55.45 km/h (stage 1). The rider’s lowest average recorded speed across the 21 stages was 28.94 km/h (stage 19).
On the quirky side, Dimension Data’s data analytics team at the Tour de France estimates that together, the riders burned an estimated 23,940,000 kcals: that’s about 85,807 hamburgers.
The Tour de France BETA living tracking website attracted over 660,000 visitors over the three weeks, which the company said is a very pleasing result for this first year.
