A Tale of Two Seasons
How a data visualisation of an English soccer team inspired me to explore a German art style using data from American basketball.
While scrolling through LinkedIn earlier this week I came across a post from Jennifer Dawes about a recent update to the Tableau Data Art Gallery. There was one particular piece of art that caught my eye – a visualisation of match data for Walthamstow FC, a semi-professional English soccer club, created by Mo Wootten.
In his visualisation, Wootten presents match-by-match data over two recent seasons for Walthamstow FC, where the game type (home or away) and outcome (win, loss, or draw) are represented by different shapes or colours.
The visualisation is presented in an attempted Bauhaus style, which, according to the internet…