Data & Sources

Everything on this site is regenerated from a cleaned SQLite archive. Downloads below have no API keys or secrets.

Downloads

• dwts.sqlite — full archive used by the build
• dwts-data-pack.tar.gz — SQLite plus CSV extracts
• CSV extracts: performances, scores, contestants, celebrities, professionals, seasons, songs, judges, dance styles, photos_ok

How the archive was built

Contestant rows are tagged kaggle or wikipedia. Performance rows come from Howison Lab score tables and Wikipedia season pages for seasons 32–35. Photos are Wikimedia Commons files that pass a license filter; each portrait page shows attribution and license. YouTube links are matched separately and embedded only at medium/high confidence via youtube-nocookie.

Known gaps

• Season 35 celebrity name scrape is partially garbled — treat S35 pages and story 3 as a data-quality note.
• Season 31 Mirrorball winner handling should be verified against Wikipedia before citing.
• Fan vote totals are not in the file. Story 19 is a judges-only proxy for vote tension.

Quarto notebooks

Each of the twenty stories also has a Quarto .qmd under reports/qmd/ in the repository, reusing the same PNG charts for reproducible HTML renders.