They Ate the Whole Thing(s): Visualizing Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Championship in Tableau

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They Ate the Whole Thing(s): Visualizing Nathan’s Hotdog Eating Championship in Tableau

July 5, 2016
by Dan Murray

Yesterday, Nathan’s had their annual hotdog eating championship in Coney Island, New York. The men’s winner was the dominant Joey Chestnut who consumed 70 hotdogs in 10 minutes. Ladies winner Miki Sudo ate 39 hotdogs. Ouch! I think that I’d need more than one antacid after that kind of self-abuse. Thanks to FiveThirtyEight for their inspirational post, which led me to visualize the competition in Tableau:

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