Ralph Spandl

@spandl.ca

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Interface of the bike counter dashboard, showing a row of KPIs and a map with installed bike counters

Screenshot from SveltePlot documentation of Raster Mark showing a generic map of Canada with a dithered color overlay.

Development environment of new Power BI visual

$Olympic Winter Games, 1932–2022 Higher, faster — and more medals. At first glance, the steamgraph reflects the steady expansion of the Games themselves: more disciplines, more events, more podiums. Look closer, though, and it also compresses decades of political history into a single shape. The green band traces the forty years of a divided Germany. The red band tells a more fractured story: across the decades, Russian athletes appear under four different names, each change driven by politics rather than sport. In absolute terms, medals attributed to countries outside the top 15 increase over time, whether their share truly grows is less clear..$