About Data with the Stars

An unofficial fan site by Artometrics, Mia and Kyle. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to ABC, BBC, the show’s producers, or the network that broadcasts Dancing with the Stars.

The site does not use the show’s logos, mirrorball mark, or broadcast footage. Dance clips stay on YouTube. When a performance has a matched link, the page embeds it from youtube-nocookie.com and does not rehost the video.

What is on record

35 seasons, 424 celebrities, 59 pro dancers, 3,601 performances, 2,578 songs, and 37 judge names with scores. 294 performances include a playable embed. 702 portraits are shown from Wikimedia Commons, each with its license and attribution.

Contestant rows in the archive are tagged kaggle or wikipedia. Performance rows are tagged howisonlab_scores_json or a Wikipedia season page for seasons 32 through 35. The site is generated from data/dwts.sqlite. Run npm run data to rebuild the pages from that file.

Known gaps

Where a field is empty, the page says “Not on record.” The archive does not yet include hosts, premiere dates, or finale dates. A single season winner is missing or tagged twice in a few seasons, including season 1. Placement is filled mainly for recent seasons. Some performance results were stored as song titles and are not shown as results. Some score rows are labeled Judge 1, Judge 2, Judge 3, or Judge 4, so those paddles are not tied to a person. One blank performance row was left out of the site.

Portraits that did not match the person’s name, or that pointed at an unrelated Commons file, are withheld. 12 of 259 candidate photos were held back.

Photo credits

Photographs are hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons, not copied into this project. Each portrait on a profile names the license and the attribution recorded in data/photos_ok.csv, and links to the Commons file page. Licenses in that file include CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, and public domain. Reuse those images under the terms on their Commons pages.

Quizzes and stories

Quizzes are generated from this archive at build time. If a season does not name a single winner, it is not a “who won” question. Stories are Markdown files in src/content/stories. The two samples and their charts are computed from the same SQLite file.

Search and indexing

Pages send noindex, nofollow while the site is still a preview. A sitemap is generated for the day that tag is removed. Firebase Hosting for this project should also send X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow.