Tableau so sexy
This post is not about Steph Curry changing his mid-range jumpshot technique. Instead, it’s about a cool datavis project called Makeover Monday. In honor of the start of the NBA regular season today, I’m going to highlight the Steph Curry mid-range jumper visualization work done as part of this project way back in January.
From the Makeover Monday site: Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data
But that drop shadow
In this edition, a Business Insider “Sports Chart of the Day” was selected as it’s a pretty simple column chart showing Curry’s misses and makes. It’s also a bit boring – if I had this data in Excel, this is what it would spit back by default with minor color and font changes. And also, adding a text box with a drop shadow for some reason.
Not-so-dreaded histogram
What did the Makeover Monday guys do with this entry-level datavis? Andy Cotgreave of Gravy Anecdote took the same chart and made it pleasant to look at and read. It sounds simple but taking a column chart and making an infinitely better column chart is more art than science.
So much blue
Andy Kriebel of the VizWiz blog went full interactive reinvention using Tableau. This screenshot doesn’t do the interactivity justice so click on over to play with the charts.
All that being said, if there’s one takeaway it’s this: Steph Curry is unreal.