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...
Craft beer is so hot right now. You might think our biggest city, New York City, is the best, but not quite. After analyzing over 1,600 breweries, New York comes in 16th out of the 800+ biggest...
Visualize various top pitchers performances throughout the 2017 season using these versatile heatmaps. You can easily see patterns around when pitchers gave up runs throughout the season from a...
This infographic examines the evolution of Argentina's national football team, bridging the past and the present. It draws inspiration from heartening stories that surfaced after Argentina's 2022...
20 years ago, he played his first professional match. Roger Federer has now won his 20th Grand Slam title. A data analysis of all the matches he has played reveals how he became the best tennis...
MLB announced in December 2020 that it would officially designate the Negro Leagues as “major leagues.” This decision adds those players into MLB’s official stats and changes some of the game’s top...
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...
Sam Kerr is one of the greatest strikers that women's football has ever seen. But finding data to show just how good she is and how she stacked up against other greats of the game proved to be an...
A big data revolution is reshaping the world – and transforming football. From the first kick to the last, football is flooded with datapoints giving fresh insights into player and team...
With the interactive map, users can follow the Berlin Marathon in time lapse for the first time, and compare the runners. The application shows how fast all 35,827 runners that finished the 2016...
During the 2018 World Cup we predicted the results of each game in real-time. The result was a collection of animated charts visualizing the triumph and heartbreak of the entire tournament. Readers...
A collection of animated gifs replaying various sport matches and events.
The "timeline triangles" visualization works with several sport disciplines when teams or individuals win by scoring...
Baseball is a sport rooted in rules and regulations. Everything in the game is standardized, planned, and coordinated, based on a guideline or precedent. Everything, that is, but the park itself:...
Many of us grew up playing Spades. But very little information exists on how the card game developed and grew to become a fixture in African-American households. This Spades project is an attempt...
NBA's leading scorer: LeBron James has surpassed 38,387 points, the record set by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar over 30 years ago. Graphics team members Mitchell Thorson and Ramon Padilla partnered with Jeff...
Without a doubt, Pele was an icon in popular culture around the world. After his death, our team started to collect interesting data about his life, the goal was to describe the 3 most relevant...
When should you pitch your tent in Yosemite? Or when is it better to opt for lodging in Grand Canyon? And when should you visit Yellowstone to avoid the crowds?
This visualization explores...
On Sunday June 19th, 2022, the 27-year old Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick became a champion once again at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. Nine years after he won the U.S. Amateur title...
New York’s celebrated and diverse restaurant culture at “the center of the universe” inspired FOODIVERSE, a visualization of food quality and customer experience in all Manhattan restaurants.
It...
In the runup to the summer games, Reuters showed how Tokyo brings a double whammy of heat and humidity to the olympic athletes, posing a high risk of heat illness.
Olympic athletes were to...
Screens Of August is a tangible data visualisation of my personal screen time across the month of August 2022. The month was divided exactly into half between my semester break and the beginning of...
Kekki is an experienced game analyst. In this interactive visualization, he guides us through the landscape of mobile games while traversing through a beautiful forest. The adventure is available...
"The Kit War" is an interactive and filterable data story about the apparel brands of the 500 top football clubs and all 211 FIFA affiliated national teams. It analyses the distribution of...
This interactive data explorer is built by acclaimed designer Moritz Stefaner and his team at Truth & Beauty, using Google Trends data. It’s also the second in the Google News Lab’s series of...
This project visualizes the performance of every World Cup player in the last 50 years. We generated a statistical fingerprint for each player based on 16 metrics, and created an interactive...
Scoutpanel is a data-driven tool to easily access all football player and team performances as well as match reports worldwide.
The intuitive and touch-optimised interface helps football scouts to...
For many of us (these co-authors included), the release of “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” in March 2020 provided a welcome escape from the early months of COVID-19. You could spend your days in...