Recent comments in /f/dataisbeautiful

JPAnalyst t1_jdqhf83 wrote

You’re looking at volume here when you need to be looking at efficiency. Players who throw more pass for more yards. This needs to be done as yards per attempt if you’re trying to glean anything meaningful out of this. And you would benefit in using a sample size of more than one season. For Example Russell Wilson’s 2023 is absolutely not indicative of the QB he has been throughout his career. Same with Tua. You’ve got an again Joe Flacco listed at 1,000 yards because he’s done, he has one foot out the door and his 2023 shouldn’t be the data used to judge his effective as it relates to his height. This is extremely flawed for so many reasons. If you aren’t looking at a players efficiency (again, not volume) over a longer period of time, you’re going to be led to a wrong conclusion.

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chomerics t1_jdqfqfd wrote

Beautiful? This is a poor visualization.

This should be a top view map, contour, not 3D. I have no idea what the totals are, where they are, no legend, bad colors etc.

What does the news show when explaining snowfall totals? Not this. Reproduce what others do, while this may look cool, it’s a bad visualization for understanding data.

The ONLY time I saw a 3D isometric work was when it was showing real time by minute #of tweets based on location during the World Cup. When a goal was scored, the bars shot up like cheering. This was the ONLY time this map ever made sense to use.

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JPAnalyst t1_jdqcznz wrote

You made a chart that shows the more people try to do a thing, the more that thing happens? Of course it does. The more darts I throw the more that hit the board. The more I step on the gas the more miles my car goes. This is absurd, particularly because it’s an attempt to one up my chart that you ripped yesterday.

If your goal is to find outliers, you simply use a table or bar chart of quarterbacks’ yards per attempt. (Y/A, NY/A, or ANY/A)

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