What does it take to score in a World Cup final? Armed with detailed Opta data, we have produced an interactive goal map of every men's World Cup final goal since (and including) 1966. Interactive by @petermckeever.bsky.social Words by @davidsegar.bsky.social theanalyst.com/articles/wor...

Interactive: What Does It Take to Score a Goal in a World Cup Final? | Opta Analyst

We look back at every goal scored in a men’s World Cup final to see what it takes to score in football's biggest game.

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People of Bluesky, may I present to you 'The Seinfeld Chronicles: Digital Edition' seinfeld.visualisingdata.com

The Seinfeld Chronicles

The Seinfeld Chronicles digital edition visually and sonically presents an entirely unnecessary data-driven exploration of every episode of Seinfeld.

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New interactive World Cup #dataviz piece with @rbenson92.bsky.social for @optaanalyst.optajoe.com Let's gooooooooo theanalyst.com/articles/wor...

History of the FIFA World Cup: Journey Through Time With the Opta Analyst Interactive Atlas | Opta Analyst

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup just around the corner, brush up on your tournament history (and geography) with our interactive World Cup Atlas. Map fans, unite!

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Just pushed an update on this for some nicer interactions on the team selector. Bbrrrrrrrrr

Peter McKeever@petermckeever.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Been a long time since I’ve worked on some #dataviz for the site. A small scrolly for a piece by @alitweedale.bsky.social 🛩️

Been a long time since I’ve worked on some #dataviz for the site. A small scrolly for a piece by @alitweedale.bsky.social 🛩️

Opta Analyst@optaanalyst.optajoe.com · 6mo ago

Tonight, Newcastle play a #UCL game after a longer journey than any other English team has made (2,529 miles). Explore our interactive map detailing all journeys made in #UCL history, created by the brilliant @petermckeever.bsky.social 👇 theanalyst.com/articles/cha...

UEFA Champions League: Live Table 📈 This table updates live, showing each team’s probability of finishing in the top eight, reaching the knockout play-offs, and being eliminated. It also shows the potential opponents each team could face in the next round. theanalyst.com/articles/cha...

UEFA Champions League Live Table and Predicted Knockout Opponents | Opta Analyst

Track the chaos of the final round of 2025-26 league-phase fixtures with our live Champions League table and data-powered predictions.

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One of those days

Download Raycast, add Toothpick, set up a hotkey to connect/disconnect your headphones. Instant quality of life upgrade. Especially if you cycle through devices for meetings/music/podcasts

Oh man The Distillers were so good youtu.be/P5iSk-6Wdow?...

The Distillers - Coral Fang

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Schalke thumped, sun’s out, touching grass at the top of Königsallee with Dozenbier reading Stormlight Archive. Thriving.

I created this chart but I don’t like one particular finding. If you correlate budget spent on personnel vs. points gained in the Bundesliga, some Bundesliga clubs are more efficient at turning spending into points than others. Heja BVB. 🙈⚫️🟡 #30DayChartChallenge #Day13 Clusters 📊 #rstats

May have some freelance work for an RStats Shiny project on the horizon. Looking for someone for ~15 hours per week over 3 months. #dataviz

There needs to be some kind of Dunning-Kruger #dataviz for making your own interactive tables from scratch but the slope of enlightenment onwards is just acceptance that a component that can do everything everyone wants but with rigid behaviour everyone expects is really really hard to build

Should this have been several smaller PRs? Yes. Does it feel great removing all of those LOC in one? Also yes.

Is this a Bluesky thing or an iPhone thing that I can select the annotations in this viz???? 🫨

Ansgar Wolsing@ansgarw.bsky.social · last yr.

How important is it for you to be rich, have a lot of money and expensive things? 💸 In Germany, 42% of people who identify as male agree with this statement, compared to 29% of women. Waffle chart created in Excel and PowerPoint. #30DayChartChallenge #Day01 Fractions 📊

Stats Perform are looking for someone to join the data analysis team to work along side Jonny Whitmore and Jon Manuel. If you're passionate about football data and want to shape how we see the game through engaging visualisations, be sure to apply! ⚽️📈📊 #dataviz t.co/lOaOOtBJAY

Great new mapping tool from the OpenStreetMap team : view borders throughout history : goes back 4000 years! www.openhistoricalmap.org/history#map=...

OpenHistoricalMap@openhistoricalmap.org · last yr.

It goes as far back in human history as people enter data, which they do all the time! OpenHistoricalMap is part of the OpenStreetMap community, so we're able to build on top of the amazing OSM ecosystem. Stop by anytime & check out our latest changes: www.openhistoricalmap.org/history#map=...

13 days left ⏳ until the #30DayChartChallenge kicks off. Are you really prepared? 😁📊📈📉 Here are the prompts for the 2nd category: Distributions More info on Github: github.com/30DayChartCh... Let us know if you have any further questions! #dataviz

Square Units xkcd.com/3065

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

An honour to be nominated for Digital Sports Publisher, as well as Specialist Sports Publisher and two individual nominations for Data Journalist for @alitweedale.bsky.social & @davidsegar.bsky.social. We're just checking with the Opta supercomputer about our projected chances of winning.

Sports Journalists’ Association@sportsjournalists.co.uk · last yr.

💻📱 The shortlist for the Digital Sports Publisher category at the #SJA2024 British Sports Journalism Awards… MailOnline Sport Opta Analyst Sky Sports The Athletic The Guardian The Telegraph The Times & Sunday Times

Cooking... #dataviz

You don't wanna know how long I spent working out why I was getting unexpected rerenders only for it to end up being the curly braces around this sort function fml 🫠

Did a little scroll piece on set pieces in the Premier League with @rbenson92.bsky.social theanalyst.com/2025/02/arse...

The influence of set-piece coaches in the Premier League seems to have grown significantly in recent years, but how much of an impact have they had, and is it just a fad? Here, our new-look interactive article analyses Premier League set-pieces. Read here: theanalyst.com/2025/02/arse...

Doesn’t matter how many times I hear it, Gremium will always sound like a made up word and I will never remember it

Bridge Four.

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So I made this plot back in September. It stated that 10 points would be enough to qualify for Top 24 in 99% of the simulations. Clearly this didn't materialise — Dinamo Zagreb got knocked out with 11 points. Some thoughts 👇

markstats@markstats.club · 2y ago

10 points is “almost enough” they said 🤔