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April 22, 2019

#MakeoverMonday: Which NBA arena makes Stephen Curry's favorite popcorn?

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Wow! What an incredible data set this week? A professional athlete tracking quantified-self data! And in this case, that athlete is NBA star Stephen Curry and the data is popcorn. Yes, that's right, Stephen Curry tracked data about popcorn from every NBA arena. According to this article from the New York Times, having some popcorn is part of his pre-game routine. Whatever works!

In the NYT article, they included a simple heatmap:


What works well?

  • A heatmap is a good chart choice. Because the highest rating is darkest, those pop out more.
  • Sorting the teams/arenas by the total score.
  • Including borders around each cell helps separate them.
  • Have both the team and arena together in a single cell but in multiple rows.
  • Including the rating for each field.
  • I love the data source!!

What could be improved?

  • Needs a better title
  • The diagonal rotation of the text makes the categories harder to read than necessary.

What I did

  • I really like the original, so I also created a heatmap.
  • I change the colors to use the blue from the Golden State Warriors brand colors.
  • I made the category headers horizontal.
  • I created a calculation to include the team and arena in the same field, but on multiple rows.
  • I used viz in tooltip to shows the rating across all categories for each team.
  • I included an option to allow the reader to sort by their most important factor.

May 10, 2016

Tableau Tip Tuesday: How to Create Directional Lollipops

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In this week’s tip, I show you how to create directional lollipops, an alternative view to time series jittering. In the video, I look at the incredible season by Stephen Curry and his shot results minute-by-minute, game-by-game.

Enjoy!

January 11, 2016

Makeover Monday: Stephen Curry Hates Mid-Range Jump Shots

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This week's Makeover Monday looks at this simple stacked bar chart from Sports Chart of the Day:


What works well:

  1. Nice labelling on the axes; this makes it clear what we data is displayed
  2. Nice annotation of the point of the chart


What could be done better:

  1. Needs a better title
  2. Needs to incorporate shooting % so that I can better understand the relationship between shots taken and shooting %
  3. Group together all shots over 30 feet
  4. Find a better way to compare the number of shots taken on each range. I find the stacked bars hard to compare within in a shot distance.
  5. Make the different shot ranges more clear, e.g., what defines a long 2?
  6. Provide a summary
  7. How are Curry's shot selections changing over time?


With these considerations in mind, here is my my makeover of the chart:


Note: If you'd like to participate in Makeover Monday, check this link for the details.

November 17, 2015

Tableau Tip Tuesday: Aligning Time - An Analysis of the Greatest 3-Point Shooters of All-Time

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In this week’s tip, I review how to align measures that start at different time periods in order to understand how Stephen Curry compares to the greatest NBA 3-point shooters of all-time. In order to do that, I need to create a table calculation to align the seasons each player played.

Click on the video tab to see how I built this.


SPOILER: At this point in his career, Curry is far and away the best 3-point shooter of all time.

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