The Delayed Gratification team (www.slow-journalism.com) loves to dive into sports data, and for our book An Answer For Everything we thought it would be fascinating to see how much athletes have...
This project is an exploration of how much swimming has improved since the beginning of the 20th Century. It includes three different visualizations: the first one focuses in the average speeds of...
Baseball–the “national pastime” in the United States–has been almost exclusively a male sport. However, between 1943 and 1954 – beginning during World War II and continuing for twelve seasons – the...
In addition to the many superlatives that have been used to describe the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup, it also produced more data than any football tournament ever before.
Every touch, pass, cross,...
How did Steph go from being a one-man revolution and the first unanimous MVP to being almost an afterthought in the race? Well, two things:
The already-great Golden State Warriors signed one...
According to the missing incident of Malaysia Airlines MH370, from March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines MH370 took off to December 2021, about Malaysia Airlines' flight timeline, search and rescue...
On Dec. 9, 2004, the Rockets needed 13 points to top the Spurs, 81-80. That they did so within the final 33 seconds is perhaps unprecedented in an NBA game. This #SportsVizSunday visualisation...
Serena Williams was toppled from the number one spot following the US Open, just as she matched Steffi Graf’s all-time record of 186 consecutive weeks atop the WTA rankings. Shown below is every...
Graphically visualized poster about the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia.
All games, scores and further information about the participants visually arranged as a compact poster.
When we think about swimming world records and top times, we typically just think of minutes and seconds, but this visualization takes a different approach to viewing top times by showing the...
FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO identifies similar players throughout NBA history and uses them to develop a probabilistic forecast of what a current NBA player’s future might look like.
Basketball is all about team. We love top NBA players because they play hard to fight for their team's win. However, we don't yet have an easy way to explore how they are connected to each other,...
The Tour de France is the hardest cycling race in the world. In order to win, it takes a combination of different riders on each team playing their part in the peloton. Cyclists have to sacrifice...
The delayed 2020 Ryder Cup saw Team USA dominate Team Europe in a 19-9 points victory. Explore the 3 days of golfing excellence by Team USA with end of day analysis highlighting specific elements...
Records fell on the final day of the Premier League season as newly-crowned champions Manchester City became the first team to reach 100 points. City have also set a number of other new benchmarks...
Who misses travelling? I know I do!
Explore Airbnb's real data of over 250k listings in the 10 cities spread over 6 continents that make up the world's most popular travel destinations, along with...
Luna Land is a theme park in California. This corporate report was designed to encourage interest and take the reader on a journey using illustrated characters which reflect the spirit of the park...
Explore the colleges that won the male and female NCAA Lacrosse D1 Championships with emphasis being placed on consecutive championships and when colleges won both the male and female titles in the...
As part of football magazine These Football Times' edition on the sports brand Nike, I was commissioned to create a double page spread infographic detailing the key releases from the...
Formula 1: The Exhibition launched in March 2023 in Madrid. The exhibition, which runs in the Spanish capital until August before setting off around venues across the world, explores the history,...
Science is helping to create new training methods and amazing performances by athletes such as swimmer Katie Ledecky. How much faster, stronger, and better can humans get?
A sporting hero of mine Chrissie Wellington, I've visualised all her triathlon races by the relative lead she had as the winner over the next competitor
The 2018 World Cup was a tournament to remember and the subject of Delayed Gratification’s most ambitious infographics to date. Over ten pages the magazine visualised every match, determined the...
The World Cup is a weeks-long feast of sport. This suite of pages gave readers an expansive way to follow the action with live match stats and commentary, team lineups and history, a fun take on...
In the lead up to the final game of the 2018 World Cup, we took our live match predictions for each of the knockout stage matches and visualized the probabilistic paths that France and Croatia took...
Data-driven exploration of game opponents during the 2018 FIFA world cup in Russia. The site allows visitors to explore how two teams compare in terms of historic matches against each other, recent...