The Amazing Race: Statistics shown in SAS Visual Analytics
The popular reality television show, The Amazing Race, has been around for a while with season 32 to air in the 2019-2020 season. Typically eleven teams of two race around the world to win the grand prize of US$1 million. I used SAS Visual Analytics to analyze the historic race data to see whether there are any patterns in teams structure, relationships and whether some perform better than others.
The interactive version of the report lets you select the season in the top left button bar which then reflects race route and team statistics. You'll see that teams have covered a wide variety of countries. The producers' delayed release of a season after filming is interesting, as well as the reduction of only filming one season per year in recent years. The best-ever performing team was Eric & Jeremy in Season 9 with the best average position by leg - however they didn't win the grand price in the final leg (came in a close 2nd).
Update 11/4/19:
@ChrisNZ also suggested a more interactive preview of the infographic by recording a screen-cast. This is just a quick walk-thru of some of the report visuals and related interactivity with ability to explore & compare different season statistics.
Enjoy!
