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Happy Sunday all,
I am hoping everyone is enjoying watching the Olympics so far? let us know what your favourite sporting moment has been! I of course have personally loved the Nadal - Alcaraz pairing in the mens tennis doubles.
As I write this, I've just watched Republic of Korea get gold in the archery. The Republic of Korea has won gold in this event at every single Olympic Games since first held in Seoul 1988. That's 10 gold medals in a row. What an incredible achievement, and a real nail biter this year with it going to a shootout.
So with that in mind we will kick start our round up with Olympics content!
Ever wonder which country has the most medals? Over the course of the Olympics, the sports included has changed - I wonder if that has brought with it a greater variety of winning countries.
Well, Ryan goes some way in helping explain that. The USA are pretty clear, with what has been an impressive flurry of medals predominantly in gymnastics and weightlifting amongst all the athletics events. A beautiful design with great efforts going into iconography and ranking features.
Sergiu and the RomanianDATA Tribe are looking at both summer and winter olympic games. Have a look at the round up of Agata, Florin, Alexandra, Elena-Luchiana, Daniel and Alexandra's work.
Pat looks specifically at wrestling records for Gable and Sanderson in a visual he's called "Chasing Gable". Two very different generations, but with a career span currently 6 years less to date who knows what records can be broken. Pat's visual has a wicked radial tree map well worth checking out for inspiration!
Heather recalls the villans and heros of the olympics, and those that were flops through to gold medalists. Find out who stole the heart of the nations, and which individuals cheated their way to gold.
I'm going to call it early and say Australia to win the mens hockey this year.... and we can add Matt Dawson to golden hero, who broken is hand in a training session and to recover quick enough for the olympics had part of his finger amputated. Real commitment to the sport that must mean everything to him.
I hear the chants of "USA! USA! USA!" as I open this visual by Brian Moore. Brian shows proudly the dominance of the US at the Olympics winning 2.5x the number of medals as any other country with this innovative streamgraph. In typical Brian fashion you can be wowed as to how he has managed to build this chart in one single view. I find the addition of the flag to the polygon lines both technically amazing from a build perspective but also a really fitting use of color/logo against the grey offset.
Yasushi spoils us to another basketball visual. Yasushi calls out the difference in height between Japan and their potential opposition. Yuki Tagoshi coming in at the shortest at 5 foot 5 against Victor Wembanyama sitting at 7ft 3.
MC Boyer looks at one of the best to ever graced the sport.
Breaking the 2 hour mark has been a long standing barrier in the marathon event, and whilst we have seen Kipchoge run sub 2 before unrecorded, no one has ever done it at the Olympics. Kipchoge will make Olympic marathon history if he becomes the first man to win three Olympic marathon golds, and is the first Kenyan to make five appearances at the Olympics.
That's it for Olympics content this week..... Keep 'em coming. Really excited to see what everyone comes up with.
This week we celebrate a Viz of the day recognised by tableau for Damola!
Congratulations on what is such a wonderful design for the Euros tournament.
Mo reminisces on what was a great run for England. Maybe we don't give Southgate half the respect he deserved during his tenure with the squad. 2 Finals and a semi final make for some pretty good stats and is some of the best results we the nation have had since the 70's.
The reference lines of Manager tenure really bring this piece together.
Talking of reminiscing about the Euros... does it get much better than this?
I said it before, and i'll say it again. No one else is making soccer dashboards on the level of Nick right now. Check out this viz looking at match summary, passing and shooting stats.
In case you missed it, the sports TUG has just been announced, led by Ryan, Mo, Fred and Steven, making for awesome representation across every region of the world. I am so excited to see what comes of it and hoping to collaborate closely with them on future sporting projects. Check it out, stay tuned and congratulations to the team on the launch.
p.s if you want to speak at their TUG sign up here.
The Makeover Monday team looked at the Wimbledon championship this week for their challenge with some pretty awesome content. As Chimdi's number 1 fan, I had to include his viz where he can translate prize pools, participation and earnings in such a meaningful and elegant fashion.
I love seeing what the community get up to. Especially when its about the club I support. Bo managed to get some of the team to sign a print he made. Hope you are loving the WH Florida tour Bo!
Two pieces of F1 content this week. The first of which comes from Anastasiya. A previous visual of hers back from May, but I am enjoying the frequent updates and excitement as the season progresses.
The second piece of F1 content comes from Dan Wade. Dan was kind enough to share how to create circuit maps with us on my personal blog. It is a wonderful read and you get to learn a little bit more about Dan personally and his passion for both sports and data as part of it.
Inspired by the running content of Adam Green, I thought to look at some of my personal fitness journey based on Strava data I've been collecting for the last few years. On the surface it may look like I have fallen off the mark, especially without proper context to the activities, but the less active days in March and April were in preparation for the Ultra marathon in May. Ideally i'll ramp up the number of orange dots in H2. Calendar template was from Lindsay Betzendahl.
Closing out this week on cycling data, the first comes from @TourmanagerT (Ingar Bergeland)
Quite honestly a fantastic thread covering stage profiles and favourites for the race. The end Tableau visual helps showcase hill and mountain score vs strength and endurance.
The final visual of the round up goes to David Rudkin, in which may be one of the most impressive radial designs I have seen in a while in Tableau. 21 Stages all with different time gaps, elevations and stage types combined to make such a beautiful design. David's work comes with a complementary parameter driven bee swarm.
That's it for this week. Probably one of my favourite weeks of content this year. Enjoy the rest of your day. Take care,
CJ & the #SportsVizSunday team
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