Fun with data

Every career starts at zero. Race a dancer's score from their first competition against the ghosts of today's champions at the same point in their careers, over the glow of everyone who started.

Do judges place couples from their own country higher than the rest of the panel? Every flag against every flag, from the published final marks. Country by country, never judge by judge.

Your place in every cohort you belong to — the whole board, your country, level and age group — as a spire of glowing galaxies, best ranked at each core. A golden thread climbs through your star; hover any other star to see theirs.

Fly through the rating “pools” of each style — the Leiden communities of who dances against whom — spheres are pools (sized by membership), lines are the crossover bridges between them. Orbit, zoom, and hover to see who's in each.

The dance world as a planet at night — 3,400 competition cities glowing by yearly attendance, travel arcs converging on Blackpool each May. Press play to watch a century unfold, and 2020 switch the lights off.

Thirty years of the top thirty couples as a living ladder. Every dancer keeps one colour for life; watch partnerships rise, split and re-pair, and see whether the new partnership scored higher a year later.

Every career as a flowing river: start as a junior, collegiate dancer, adult or Pro-Am student, then watch the stream split into the next category, turn professional, rejoin, or stop. Pick a start and follow where it led.

Every judge a star in a night sky, placed by how alike they mark. Click one to light up the colleagues who mark most like them as their own constellation; each circuit glows as its own nebula. A map of taste, not of quality.