Visualization is all about making comparisons. If you have nothing to compare to, then the chart fails. In this issue I describe some of the ways you can make your charts more comparable.
Results for baseball
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Making Comparisons Easier When Presenting Data (The Process #40)
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Pitch speed distribution, a decrease with age
Pitch speed starts to decrease with a baseball player’s age at some point.…
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Basketball Stat Cherry Picking
Wow your friends during the game with random win percentages, based on various player stats.
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Umpire strike zone changes to finish games earlier
When watching baseball on television, we get the benefit of seeing whether a…
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Statistical detection of potential child abuse cases
Dan Hurley, reporting for The New York Times, describes the use of statistical…
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Why People Visit the Emergency Room
These are the top 250 products that people injure themselves on or with in a year.
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NBA player career projections
Predictions for how NBA players will contribute to their teams, based on their own performance and history.
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Gambler’s perspective on sports team win probabilities
Michael Beuoy’s win probability model plotted on FiveThirtyEight starts all NBA teams at…
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Touchdown passing record
Peyton Manning, quarterback for the Denver Broncos, passed up Brett Favre’s career record…
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Deviations from the mean
As a way to bring context to the rarity of the 18-inning baseball…
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Powers of Ten, Derek Jeter style
You’ve likely seen the classic Powers of Ten video from 1977. It starts…
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Explorations of People Movements
A new data source gave rise to a different set of visualization projects. We see people.
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NBA basketball fans by ZIP code
After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…
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Cherry picking years for random sports statements
When you watch sports, it can sometimes feel like the stat guy pulls…
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Degrees of separation between athletes from different sports
You’ve probably heard of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. The idea is…
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How to Make Slopegraphs in R
Also known as specialized or custom line charts. Figure out how to draw lines with the right spacing and pointed in the right direction, and you’ve got your slopegraphs.
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Statistical network of basketball →
By now, everyone’s heard of Moneyball. Applying statistics to baseball to build the…
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Humans predicting the weather
Nate Silver says the weatherman is not a moron.
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Why I Want to Quit Cable
There are good reasons to cancel cable, but there were a few channels and programs that kept me on. When you look at it in dollars though, it’s hard to justify the value for the cost.
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When data guys triumph
Cade Massey and Bob Tedeschi for The New York Times on the book,…