Data. Design. Engineering.
I recently visited the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and was inspired to do a deeper diver into Kanye as an artist. The data was pulled via Sort Your Music. The individual charts were created through R’s ggplot2 library, and the entire graphic was laid out in Sketch.
I made the above chart as both an art project and an exercise in creating more aesthetic short charts. All short charts were made via Python’s matplotlib library and the overall visualization was made through Sketch.
R • d3 • Data Analysis • Data Visualization
A triple double is when a basketball averages 10 points, rebounds, and assists. The only player to accomplish that over the course of an NBA season was Oscar Robertson, roughly 50 years ago. Russell Westbrook, currently a point guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder, has a been close to that milestone all season – a feat that has been talked about greatly in the media this year.
I wanted to create an interactive dashboard that would allow users to explore and analyze Westbrook’s historic season. This intially entailed using R to query data off NBA’s API and generate a probabilistic model for Westbrook’s chances of averaging a triple-double. From there I used Javacsript’s d3 library to deliver an information rich, interactive interface.
The project can be found here, and will continue to live update through the rest of the NBA season. A screenshot is below.
