Weekly Roundup 07.27.2025

I started writing this on Sunday - as is fitting for #SportsVizSunday - but got derailed by England winning the Euros in very thrilling fashion. I would say that the manner of the victory was unexpected but I don't think it can be given their path to the final! This is the intro I wrote originally and I'm going to leave it up because I think it still fits. Sweeeeet Caroliiiine! Anyone else excited by the final of the Women's Euros coming up later today? England must have used up all the skin on their teeth getting here - a pair of late equalisers against Sweden before winning a penalty shoot out that Sweden had multiple chances to win, and an equaliser against Italy with almost the last kick of regular time before winning it with a penalty towards extra time.

Winning when you're not playing well is a key characteristic of champions though, and it reminds me of two other teams. Alex Ferguson's all-conquering Manchester United of the late 90s and early 00s, and the Arsenal Invincibles of 2003-04. Helpfully, the Invincibles is also where we begin today's roundup!

Adam Green (who is on his THIRD consecutive week of being featured! and has focused on a different sport each time too) took a look at this season through the lens of the zero. I really like this angle which allows Adam to turn something usually negative into a positive, and he's combined it with a clever twist on the usual way of visualising league tables too.

Sticking with football, Nick van Lieshout combined Figma with Tableau to create this stunning post-Game analysis pack for the Club World Club final. As well as being beautifully designed, this report contains some great insight and visualisations that show how the final was won (against expectation too). As a bonus, this sort of design and layout would be very easy to read on a phone without compromising the detail. Something to think about next time I'm designing for mobile viewers...

Swapping sports now, and Rafael Guevara has done a deep dive into The Open Championship (of which the most recent edition finished the other week). Combining maps, bump charts and heat maps, Rafael takes us on an informative tour of the history of the The Open's locations and how last year's Championship played out. I agree with him that bump charts are excellent for events like this - even with this number of golfers competing, it only takes a different size line to highlight the eventual winner really effectively. Plus, the heatmap/highlight table is another regular reminder that colour can be really effective when used deliberately.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rafael-guevara-jr_dataviz-tableau-tableaupublic-activity-7353015901379551232-ebnz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABTscqEBRkzMjS4Avcn31ks62mCt8bqjQ0g

On the golf theme, Jamie Kennedy has produced the overall leaderboard for golfers who completed all the rounds in the majors. I'm not surprised to see Scottie so far ahead but I was more surprised by how often the fictional title changed hands over the last few years (I'm claiming this as data visualisation due to the emojis).

I'm ending with Ricardo Heredia's new GitHub repo for football analytics experiments. He's got some great code examples to make dashboards and other visualisations. Worth a look if you're interested in football performance (or improving your coding generally).

And that'll be it for today! Keep vizzing y'all!

Mo & the #SportsVizSunday team