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• Player Genome Project: Part I

  I’ve been heavily influenced recently by FreeDarko’s book “The Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac“. If you haven’t heard of it, check out the website. The infostrations (information illustrations?) are some of the most unique and well done I’ve seen in any field.

  One of the chapters contains a graph displaying the anomalies that are Gerald […]

  Posted on Nov 26.08 to Genome, NBA, Paul Pierce, Processing, Statistics, Visualization   

• NBA Shot Location Visualization Update

  We’ve been playing with a few different ideas to allow for users to specify the data set to visualize; in the meantime I threw together a version that allows for each quarter to be shown.  The data is hard coded right now, not optimal but easy and fast.

  The controls are the same as before (click […]

  Posted on Nov 12.08 to NBA, Processing, Statistics, Visualization   

• Stats Caricatures 2.0

  I started messing with some data from Doug stats to see what I could make. This visualization builds caricatures based on NBA player stats for the 07-08 season.

  Head Size = Shots taken
  Head Aspect Ratio = Percent of shots made
  Arm length = Blocked shots
  Leg Length = Rebounds
  Eye Size = Assists
  Eye Aspect Ratio = Turnovers

  Here is what […]

  Posted on Nov 10.08 to Caricatures, Doug Stats, NBA, Player Comparison, Processing, Statistics, Visualization   

• NBA Shot Location Visualization

  Matt and I collaborated this morning to put together this visualization of shot frequency for the entire 07-08 NBA season. The graphic rotates when you click and drag the mouse and you can zoom in and out with the “S” and “T” keys. We currently have 2 versions, one with cubes and one with bars. […]

  Posted on Nov 10.08 to NBA, Processing, Statistics, Visualization