Every square you see here is either a goal, shot on target or shot, Lionel Messi has scored in his illustrious career * * Updated upto the Nigeria vs Argentina game on 26th June 2018.

Rosa Pugilatu, more commonly known as the Glove Rose, is a new specie of flower. It blossoms periodically on the occasion of major boxing tournaments following an Olympic flowering cycle. Each...

In this data visualisation challenge related to the Tour de France, the goal was to: "help increase the race's popularity around the world by creating an infographic-style visual to educate new...

Inspired by the #journaldataviz, I've collected data on my 1 week vacation in July 2023. During this time we traveled with my family and I helped them around the house. The visualization was...

We built a chart-bot that generated (and posted to Twitter) a chart of every NBA playoff game . The charts show how each basketball game played out: the lead changes, the unique set of...

Russian stacking dolls are known in their homeland as matryoshka, which means "little matrons". Here the coaches of each of the World Cup teams are transformed into little matrons to show their...

Historical data and timeline of countries and how they perform in all Olympics.

Clippd is a powerful new performance platform for golfers and golf coaches. It allows users to input and connect their golf data to get a high-resolution picture of their game and understand where...

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 number of Americans who do yoga has more than doubled in less than a decade.

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...

Harlequins are a rugby team based in West London, known and loved in the sport for their distinctive kit. This visualisation uses the quadrant style of their home shirt to display point for and...

Boston's shared Bluebike system supports more than 12,000 rides per day throughout Boston, Cambridge, Brookline, and Somerville, Massachusetts. This motion scatterplot artfully illustrates the...

Infographic of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics visualising medal tallies by individual events for all 93 participating nations. Chord plots show number of gold, silver, and bronze wins connected to each...

This analysis and visualization is inspired by the most frequent question I got when I told people that I was a synchronized swimmer; "How long can you stay underwater?". I would try to explain...

This infographic comprehensively maps out all the ways of winning in different sports, clustering the world's sports according to what counts as winning (eg, being the fastest, being the most...

This project shows all medals in Olympic history from 1896 - 2022 in one single interactive chart. Medal clusters can be sorted and filtered to display 🥇 Medal tables for each Olympic game 🥈...

Women’s Gold Medalists, Rio Olympics 2016 is a meticulously illustrated 105 page book documenting all the women who won gold medals. It provides visual information on the athletes and their...

Reading a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book can feel like being lost in a maze and running through twists and turns only to find dead ends, switchbacks, and disappointment. In the books—for those...

Our in-depth analysis using data from IMDb and The Numbers reveals a significant increase in both the quantity and proportion of 2h+ films since 2020. Using this as a starting point, we interpret...

In 2017, FiveThirtyEight published "The Ultimate Halloween candy power ranking" in an attempt to help trick-o-treat victims survive this frightful night unscathed. The author set out to rank 85...

Interactive Data Visualization exploring every recorded game in FBS history (relative to teams still in the FBS). Users can see patterns in various teams, and explore the the games in the great...

American football quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes, has won playoff games to the tune of 15 games through his first six seasons as a starter. That outpaces the current record...

A visualisation created for Tableau's IronViz 2023 competition that came second in the EMEA region. This visualisation tells the story of England's victorious Rugby World Cup campaign, detailing...

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...

This was a goofy piece — it’s not every day a writer has a spreadsheet full of sports mascots to peruse. The article is a deep dive into the history of sports mascots, and the visualization is a...

A summary of fifteen thousand American Football games

On the occasion of the match between Liverpool and Manchester City in the 2021-22 season, the first two classified in the Premier, in Mundo Deportivo we made a special with a series of graphs that...

In collaboration with the NFL's 2023 Diversity and Inclusion Report, Playfair Data presents an analysis of occupational mobility patterns within the NFL. The annual study, now in its 10th year,...