hakutorizakura 388 Posted May 9, 2020 Hi sumo folks, just want to share a graph I made while procrastinating today... It's basically a historic timeline of sumo's yokozunas since Tanikaze (thanks to sumodb for the data). I thought this would be useful when discussing specific points in history, who were the top dogs at that time, how many were there at a given time and how they might have played a role in the issue being discussed etc. etc. I didn't find something like this when I googled the web or in the forum, so apologies if I missed out and this is not something new. In the above screenshot the window is the past 100 years and some yoks didn't even have a long enough reign to enable their names to show up, but in the HTML version one can zoom in/out and pan around freely. If you are interested you can download it from the link below (link active until 16 May); just unzip the zip file and open the html file with your web browser. https://wetransfer.com/downloads/fc860f3bde476f6b73412f68432e249220200509184426/77abcc70085f95e8bf9ad2b51eff2a7620200509184515/0ed98a I would actually prefer to have the HTML graph embedded in this post but I don't know if it's possible. If it is, please feel free to edit the post and do so, dear forum mods 6 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yamanashi 2,464 Posted May 9, 2020 I did something like this (by hand!) in Excel about a year ago, but I didn't have enough allowed KB to display it. It's very helpful in discussions about "well, A didn't have as many Yokozuna to contend with during his career as B did!" and the like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Eikokurai 3,194 Posted May 10, 2020 Not long ago I started working on some sumo graphics to improve my InDesign and Illustrator skills. Among other things, I was illustrating a taxonomy of kimarite and designing a split-bar graph that showed how many basho each Yokozuna spent in each division/at each rank (all Yokozuna in the 15-day, six-basho-a-year era). If I ever finish both I’ll share them on here. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hakutorizakura 388 Posted May 10, 2020 19 hours ago, Yamanashi said: I did something like this (by hand!) in Excel about a year ago, but I didn't have enough allowed KB to display it. It's very helpful in discussions about "well, A didn't have as many Yokozuna to contend with during his career as B did!" and the like. Exactly my thought! Might also do the ozeki version at some point later. Initially I also wanted to just do it in excel by coloring the cells corresponding to the months... but after a few minutes, nope, there must be a better way to do this 16 hours ago, Eikokurai said: Not long ago I started working on some sumo graphics to improve my InDesign and Illustrator skills. Among other things, I was illustrating a taxonomy of kimarite and designing a split-bar graph that showed how many basho each Yokozuna spent in each division/at each rank (all Yokozuna in the 15-day, six-basho-a-year era). If I ever finish both I’ll share them on here. Oh that would be nice. Looking forward to it! I haven't seen that many sumo infographics so those graphs would be most welcome. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Oortael 125 Posted May 12, 2020 On 10/05/2020 at 01:15, Yamanashi said: I did something like this (by hand!) in Excel about a year ago, but I didn't have enough allowed KB to display it. It's very helpful in discussions about "well, A didn't have as many Yokozuna to contend with during his career as B did!" and the like. Personnally I did this on Excel, as Excel is my "go to" for pretty much anything. Some personal preferences into it (in case you find some weird/inacturate stuff). The purpose was to learn some sumo history as I'm a newbie, and to have an idea of how many Y/O where active on average per basho. 6 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Katsunorifuji 65 Posted May 12, 2020 12 hours ago, Oortael said: Personnally I did this on Excel, as Excel is my "go to" for pretty much anything. Some personal preferences into it (in case you find some weird/inacturate stuff). The purpose was to learn some sumo history as I'm a newbie, and to have an idea of how many Y/O where active on average per basho. Very cool, thanks for sharing. Kaio has a career spanning three decades and was Ozeki for an entire decade! I knew he was good but this gives a whole new appreciation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
