data-quality note
Season 35 power rankings (weekly) — provisional
Provisional judge ranking through week 8; S35 name scrape is garbled — repair cast map before publishing as power rankings.
Note: This story is marked as a data-quality note.
Ballroom Data · Artometrics-style report · Nov 3, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles)
Headline
Through week 8, the cleaned scrape’s highest multi-week judge means belong to celebs labeled Harry (8.28), Jenna (8.23), and Ezra (8.12) — but Season 35 names in this build are badly garbled, so this is a provisional judge-only ranking, not a publish-ready power list.
Data-quality note (read first)
The Wikipedia HTML parse for Season 35 often stored first names only, mixed pro/celeb labels, and duo strings (e.g. “Julianne Hough Connor”). Fan votes are not in the dataset at all. Do not treat the name labels as authoritative until the S35 cast map is repaired.
What we can say
- Data run through week 8.
- Field weekly means and cumulative judge points are computed from scored dances that exist.
- Eliminated tags in results still identify several exits (weeks 1–8).
Methods & caveats
Season 35 celebrity names in the scrape are often first-name only or garbled. Provisional judge-only ranking; fan votes not in dataset. Next step: remap S35 celebrity_id → full names from the season cast table, then republish.
Coverage: seasons 1–35; 3,602 performances; 11,027 individual judge marks in the cleaned Ballroom Data SQLite build (Nov 3, 2026, America/Los_Angeles).
Known gaps: Season 31 Mirrorball winner is not tagged as Winners in the performance table (Charli D’Amelio / Mark Ballas is missing from our winners extract). Seasons 33–35 largely lack Kaggle ages/hometowns. Season 35 celebrity names in the wiki scrape are often first-name-only or garbled. Dance-style strings still include some unclean variants. We never impute missing values.
Sources: howisonlab/dwts_dataset (GitHub); Kaggle brupley/dancing-with-the-stars-dataset (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wikipedia DWTS season pages for seasons 32–35 (CC BY-SA 4.0). Scores are per-judge means on a 0–10 scale so 3-judge and 4-judge weeks are comparable. Marathons/relays/megamixes are excluded from style averages unless noted.
Disclaimer: Unofficial fan analysis. Not affiliated with BBC Worldwide, Disney, or ABC.
Downloads
Quarto source, rendered report, chart exports (PNG/SVG), and the analysis CSV.
