/WCA_SAC

Creates a stacked-area-chart of the Top 100 WCA results, year by year.

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Stacked Area Charts of Top WCA solves

Creates a Stacked Area Chart of the 100 best WCA results of an event, per year!

a stacked area chart of the top 100 3x3 solves per year

Steps for setup:

    1. Download this repo.
    1. Download the most recent WCA .tsv export from here (https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/export/results), extract the .zip, and put the files in the /data folder.
    1. Extract the flags.zip folder. (Set the destination to YOUR_PROJECT_FOLDER/flags, so that the flag images are in the /flags folder!)
    2. Run this command to install the required libraries (it's just numpy, unidecode, and Pillow, which you may already have):
    pip install -r requirements.txt

Steps for creating images:

    1. Open a command prompt from this directory.
    1. Run this command, which will create a simplified .csv data file! (Takes 5 seconds on my computer)
    python create_top100.py 333
    1. If you ever have a .csv data file, then run this command to produce the final image: (Takes 0.8 seconds on my computer)
    python create_graph.py 333
    1. Voila! The image should show up in your folder as "SAC_graph_333.png".

Customize it!

You can change the event to whatever you want. In these examples, it's 333. But you can also choose from this list (taken from WCA_export_Events.tsv):

222, 333, 333bf, 333fm, 333ft, 333mbf, 333mbo, 333oh, 444, 444bf, 555, 555bf, 666, 777, clock, magic, minx, mmagic, pyram, skewb, sq1

If you want to make a chart for averages, not singles, simply append "_a" to the end of the event parameter, like so:

  python create_top100.py 333_a

Disclaimer

I wrote this code in a couple days, so the text might not show up correctly with the oddball events, like FMC or Multi-Blind.