A Data Analysis of the Dublin Marathon

Lessons Learned from 150,000 Dublin Marathon Runners

barrysmyth
Running with Data
Published in
14 min readOct 2, 2016

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TLDR;

  • An analysis of 150,000 Dublin Marathon runners from 2000–2015.
  • The field is getting faster and older, but increasingly male dominated.
  • While men may be faster than women, women are more disciplined: they run a more consistent

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barrysmyth
Running with Data

Professor of Computer Science at University College Dublin. Focus on AI/ML and recommender systems, with applications in e-commerce, media, and health.