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...
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...
Only a handful of batsmen over the years have reached the 10,000 run milestone in limited overs international cricket. This interactive charts out how one of the modern greats, Virat Kohli, got...
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...
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...
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...
An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century.
"Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...
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...
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...
This visualization shows 335 surfing spots on the Italian coastline, flattened, divided by regions and seas that flow through them. Of the 30 best voted spots on magicseaweed.com, we analyzed the...
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...
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...
Today, our identities are marked and defined by the technology tracking us. 'Shifting Gears’ resulted from a classroom project based on visualising an aspect from our personal lives. This...
In the 1970s an Australian historian suggested the idea of the 'Barassi Line', a line on the map that divided Australia roughly in two, based on the sport they preferred. On one side of the line...
During this year’s U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, the English golfer Tommy Fleetwood shot a record-equalling final round of 63 (7 under par). Although Fleetwood missed out on the...
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...
The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...
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...
A deep dive into dog breeding history and the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Dogs have been companions to humans for thousands of years and as the relationship has developed, so have various...
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...
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...
There are 80 countries* which have participated in a past World Cup tournament or are going to participate in this years World Cup.
They have been participating with their own national...
Assisting people to live a healthy lifestyle is something we value. We believe that data, when collected reliably and understood intuitively, can play a significant role in helping us understand...
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...
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...
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...
We illustrated over 200 masked wrestlers and showed how they are connected by design, geography, and culture. Choose a guided story or explore on your own.