Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots
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#2I looked at the team graph and thought it wasn't going to be very informative, but was surprised to see some of the very distinctive player patterns (e.g. Battier).
The graphics are brilliant. Is the image -> graph effect part of some library I haven't heard of?
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#3I thought these might be D3/SVG visualizations, but it looks like a custom chart library developed by NYT themselves, with drawing done in a Canvas element.
I think a browser might choke on this many visualizations in SVG but I'm not sure. I've seen libraries take all sorts of approaches, but I'm leaning towards Canvas for really fluid and precise graphics.
Edit: I'm baffled why someone would downvote this.
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#4Very cool. Now all you need is bunch of robot-basketball players with this data plugged in, and those guys' asses are kicked to high heaven, lol!!
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#5The source of this is: http://courtvisionanalytics.com/
Kirk Goldsberry does these. He's been doing this for a while. The NYT may have developed the library that they're using here (I'm not sure), but the idea and the data visualization concept are his.
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#6Incredible visualization. Seriously one of the best I've seen all year.
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#7Anyone else think the granularity is a bit too high on these? Neat concept, but I have to wonder if they wouldn't be a lot easier to interpret with about half the point density.
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#8I thought these might be D3/SVG visualizations, but it looks like a custom chart library developed by NYT themselves, with drawing done in a Canvas element. I think a browser might choke on this many visualizations in SVG but I'm not sure. I've seen libraries take all sorts of approaches, but I'm leaning towards Canvas for really fluid and precise graphics. Edit: I'm baffled why someone would downvote this.
Looking at chart2.js - canvas if the browser supports it with a fallback to flash.
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#9Is there a publicly available data source for basketball stats like this? Curious where these datasets come from...
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#10How are the statistics from which these visualizations are generated captured? Does the NBA have equipment on the court or in the arena to track players and the ball (something like how professional tennis is monitored)? Is it manual, with a person recording their own observations about player/ball placement? Post-game video analysis?