Having been a qualifier judge for a few years, I thought I’d enter #Tableau #IronViz this year! High Times, High Companions, and High Spirits is my (very high level) story about the changing tastes of cocktails. I leant into my strengths and drew everything with map layers too! #DataViz

Week 2 #NFL drive chart #DataViz! Did a few visual tweaks and had to deal with random things like whatever the heck the Steelers did with that Seattle kick-off. If anyone has any tips on designing headers and borders then please let me know. I'm terrible at that bit! #DataFam #SportsAnalytics

The #NFL is back baby! And I’ve updated my drive chart #DataViz 📊 to show the whole week in one go! 😍 Interactive version available here including some really cool tooltip details 👌 public.tableau.com/views/NFLWee... #SportsAnalytics #DataFam #Tableau

Thought I'd try something very different tonight so here is my first experiment with QGIS - a neon outline of the Isle of Man and its famous TT course. I'm very pleased with how it turned out as a first quick go. #DataFam #Tableau #Maps #SportsVizSunday

Every week, myself and a couple of others do a round-up of some of the best #SportsViz we’ve seen. The focus is on the #DataFam but we sprinkle in other things to share inspiration and cool stuff. Use the #SportsVizSunday hashtag if you want to be featured! www.sportsvizsunday.com/post/weekly-...

Incredibly proud for my work to be recognized in the 2024 Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist Showcase! Turns out I really like my backgrounds to be on the white-beige-brown colour scale. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...! #IIBAwards

This is a cool way to see whether a team won through overwhelming firepower, clinical finishing, being the least worst, or some combination of the above! #DataViz

Yesterday's games:

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

New favourite chart

Wow that guy really had a run

A #DataViz tells a thousand words. In this case, they are all about the mauling in #SuperBowlLIX

Super Bowl LIX matchups While both teams had impressive records and tore through the playoffs, not all units were elite. The Philadelphia Eagles have the advantage in three phases of the game.

Finally got my #NFL #DataViz dashboards up! The first does single games like my original post below, and the second one does these whole season reviews which incorporate the single games too. And I added a little bit of drive info too. Just in time for the #SuperBowl #DataFam! Links below 👇

I had a go at making some #NFL drive charts! I'm really pleased with how they turned out. I wanted to go with something that felt a bit more minimal (I am forever inspired by @barelymaps.bsky.social) and believe it or not, this was the more minimal version... #SportsAnalytics #DataViz #DataFam

Fascinating sociological observation. I hadn’t thought about it like that but now I can’t stop thinking about it like that.

If you're the kind of person who likes thinking about the sky (and I am!) this is a wonderful visualization to explore. So many patterns, each with its own story.

Dataviz people, what say you? Do dashboards usually fail?

This has been on my mind, is this true? 🤔 Yeah, I feel uncomfortable criticising others work because I often lack knowledge of the context and I know I feel 'attacked' myself the other way around (+still insecure on my skills). I would rather like for us to take a more positive stand 1/6 #dataviz

Some interesting comments & quotes in this post. Personally I see quite a lot of innovation, and people pushing the boundaries of things, but I’m in a relatively small corner. On the criticism, I think this is a side-effect of #dataviz being both inherently creative and a relatively new field.

Gareth Southgate's knighthood in the #NewYearHonours is a good time to reshare this #dataviz I made showcasing the new standard he set while managing the England men's football team. Remarkable stuff! #football #sports #DataFam public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

The designs of Krisztina make me jealous of her skills and great sense of style, but also simultaneously want to share with everyone in and outside the #dataviz realm. Brilliant is the word 😍 Have a look at her projects!

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Massive congratulations to Keely Hodgkinson on her BBC SPotY win! Her gold medal was one of the most dominant British performances of the #Paris2024 Games (even with my rather rough and ready #dataviz methodology). 🥇🏃‍♀️🏆 📊 public.tableau.com/views/GreatB...

This is great advice for any analysis project as well as structured/academic research

I really like just about everything they do on NPR’s Tiny Desk, and Billie Eilish’s very stripped back set is a great example of why. Excellent adapted versions. youtu.be/fOAIrUZbOwo?...

One of the most surprising things about this is how often a baseball player has held the largest contract. I don’t think anyone would expect that if they weren’t familiar with the history of baseball.

We were amazed by this week’s creative data visualizations. Check out the latest Data Vis Dispatch for ridgeline plots on climate, symbol maps on hunger, and maps on the collapse of the Assad regime. See them all here: https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-10-2024/

This is fascinating. Really interesting to see how some rivers flow all over the place but others are more consistent in their heading

Barkley and Henry are in another class this season #dataviz #nflsky

Reminds me of this great spectrogram #dataviz of what’s happening at each noise. Surprisingly (unsurprisingly?) complex. (Hat tip @kottke.org) www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-...

I find it helps me pick effective colours for my #dataviz if I’m keeping this in the front of my mind (not saying I always manage to keep it in the front of my mind though…)

Can’t stop looking but also can’t look away. Is it looking back?

This is brilliant. A must read for anyone interested in sports analytics generally, or xG specifically.

Honestly, so many incredible map designs going on in the #30DayMapChallenge. I’d love to get them all in a book somehow.

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Data person: Depends what you mean by "cup", "half", "full", and "empty".

For sure. If you like maps or any kind of visualisations then check them out

Dashboards. It's like sheep (one) and sheep (lots).

Another great idea for a map style 👇 📊

I am absolutely here for this explainer of using unequal bins for your colour scales, which leads nicely to his next point about using a discrete rather than continuous colour scale. Great stuff all round 👏

Beautiful breakdown. Tool defaults are often really bad starting points. The best dataviz are usually the ones that pay attention to the things that are nearly invisible to the untrained eye.

The EU only with letters. 🅰️🅱️©️ 🇪🇺 #30DayMapChallenge Day 19 Typography #rstats #maps

Oh what a beautiful map! 😍

Experimenting with using this at work so I’ll have to give this a listen!

Very cool map #datavis, very cool idea. @professorkao.bsky.social fancy a challenge? 😄

Join us this week! Sports Tableau User Group Nov 20, 7:00 – 8:00 PM (GMT+10) APAC friendly time Louis Yu, 2K Games: Staying Ahead of the Game! Penny Privett​​​​, Australian Football League (AFL): "Leveraging the power of data in sport" usergroups.tableau.com/events/detai...

Even if you’re only planning on using LLMs as an interface for a #dataviz tool this is still a risk too. You might ask for total profit but the LLM might actually get the correct total for sales but tell you it is profit, and label it incorrectly.

Somehow I don’t think I’ve seen drive charts before! These are awesome! Must have a go at making some

Great post by @theverge.com on how to make the most of Bluesky. www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

Which country would you see from the Spanish coast 🏖️? Several years ago, @awoodruff.bsky.social made the fantastic world cartography of beach views from different continents for the first time. Since then, I have wanted to do something similar for the Mediterranean Sea using #rstats #dataviz