Jury vs. Televote in the Eurovision Song Contest
I followed the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time since 2012 and I was personally surprised how much discourse followed this year’s finale. So I took that surprise and turned it into a semester project.
It has been longlisted in the Information is Beautiful Awards 2023, which I'm very proud of considering I had neither worked with Data Visualization nor with any form of coding before.
Using data from 2016 to 2023, I build an interactive, data-driven webproject with d3.js to get a general overview over the relation between jury and televote. My goal was to find out if the 2023 results were the exception or part of a general pattern of diverging results between jury and audience.
As it turns out, divergence of 50+ points is common, affecting about half of the songs. A significant divergence of 100+ points still applies to 48 of 181 songs in the dataset, therefore around 27% of acts can be considered controversial in terms of voting.
The country view is most helpful in its interactive form, however we get a good feeling on general performance in the static view. Jitter has been added to make clustered points more easily readable.
Data Source: eurovision.tv/history
Flag Icons by Panayjotis Lipidiris, published under the MIT Licence
