MyRaceHistoryUntil now, the whole project has been focused on who is live streaming iRacing right NOW. Why not save the data and build ways to surface it? So we are starting to collect and archive the subsession data and keeping track of which streamers were in which events. Keeping a minimal data set that describes each official race session, and the list of streamers we found turns out to be about a megabyte per day. Its still early prototyping, but we now have a "My Race History" feature! |
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It does require you to authenticate with iRacing, but then shows you your recent races and highlights any streamers who were also in those events.
The history list comes from the iRacing API for any given driver -whether they stream or not, we can provide the history. Then its a matter of filling in which streamers we observed in those sessions. The data just started being collected so its a poor example here since it doesnt show any streamers in my races... But soon it will! |
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SubSessionHistoryThere is a fancy(ish) admin page to explore the data but we will have to take care with what gets revealed on the main public page to be sensitive to privacy concerns. If we use that to search for a streamer who clearly has data and interaction with other broadcasters, it shows that the system is working... We dont have a lot of data yet, but so far its fun to search and sort around looking for series or streamers and seeing who shows up. |
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So, picking a drive rat random we can generate a list of the events that include them. This "Recent Activity" list is fundamentally different from the "Race History" we get from iRacing, since this is built dynamically from the data we've been collecting. As our data collection grows, its clear this is going to be pretty powerful in terms of being able to surface data about which races streamers were in, that's not available anywhere else that I know of. |
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