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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Having been a qualifier judge for a few years, I thought I’d enter #Tableau #IronViz this year! High Times, High Companions, and High Spirits is my (very high level) story about the changing tastes of cocktails. I leant into my strengths and drew everything with map layers too! #DataViz

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Week 2 #NFL drive chart #DataViz! Did a few visual tweaks and had to deal with random things like whatever the heck the Steelers did with that Seattle kick-off. If anyone has any tips on designing headers and borders then please let me know. I'm terrible at that bit! #DataFam #SportsAnalytics

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The #NFL is back baby! And I’ve updated my drive chart #DataViz 📊 to show the whole week in one go! 😍 Interactive version available here including some really cool tooltip details 👌 public.tableau.com/views/NFLWee... #SportsAnalytics #DataFam #Tableau

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Thought I'd try something very different tonight so here is my first experiment with QGIS - a neon outline of the Isle of Man and its famous TT course. I'm very pleased with how it turned out as a first quick go. #DataFam #Tableau #Maps #SportsVizSunday

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Every week, myself and a couple of others do a round-up of some of the best #SportsViz we’ve seen. The focus is on the #DataFam but we sprinkle in other things to share inspiration and cool stuff. Use the #SportsVizSunday hashtag if you want to be featured! www.sportsvizsunday.com/post/weekly-...

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Weekly Roundup 06.08.25

Alcaraz v Sinner eh? What a final to end a superb French Open. There's been some remarkable tennis on show in both the men's and women's games which bodes well for the next few years.Onto this week's ...

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Incredibly proud for my work to be recognized in the 2024 Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist Showcase! Turns out I really like my backgrounds to be on the white-beige-brown colour scale. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase?act...! #IIBAwards

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is a cool way to see whether a team won through overwhelming firepower, clinical finishing, being the least worst, or some combination of the above! #DataViz

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Micah McCurdy @hockeyviz.com · 26/02/2025

Yesterday's games:

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For those who haven’t seen this MASTERPIECE in person yet, it is meant to be viewed from 3 angles: From below: map of CTA network From side: picture of bus From front: picture of train

A picture of a neon sculpture of the CTA train map

From a story upwards, the neon shapes form a bus and buildings

The neon sculpture viewed from the front, showing a train and some buildings

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

New favourite chart

Bar chart showing the number of days since teams lost a Premier League home game by two or more goals. Most teams are on less than 100 days (for Man City it's been less than 24 hours, lol). Excluding games played during lockdown, Liverpool have gone 3,467 days since losing by more than one goal at Anfield. Including games played with no fans, it has been 1,465 days for Liverpool, more than four times as long as their nearest rivals (Arsenal on 316 days).

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/02/2025

Wow that guy really had a run

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

A #DataViz tells a thousand words. In this case, they are all about the mauling in #SuperBowlLIX

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datacrafted sports @datacrafted.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Super Bowl LIX matchups While both teams had impressive records and tore through the playoffs, not all units were elite. The Philadelphia Eagles have the advantage in three phases of the game.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Finally got my #NFL #DataViz dashboards up! The first does single games like my original post below, and the second one does these whole season reviews which incorporate the single games too. And I added a little bit of drive info too. Just in time for the #SuperBowl #DataFam! Links below 👇

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I had a go at making some #NFL drive charts! I'm really pleased with how they turned out. I wanted to go with something that felt a bit more minimal (I am forever inspired by @barelymaps.bsky.social) and believe it or not, this was the more minimal version... #SportsAnalytics #DataViz #DataFam

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Fascinating sociological observation. I hadn’t thought about it like that but now I can’t stop thinking about it like that.

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Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If you're the kind of person who likes thinking about the sky (and I am!) this is a wonderful visualization to explore. So many patterns, each with its own story.

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Nicole Mark (she/her) @nicoledesignsdata.com · 05/01/2025

Dataviz people, what say you? Do dashboards usually fail?

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This has been on my mind, is this true? 🤔 Yeah, I feel uncomfortable criticising others work because I often lack knowledge of the context and I know I feel 'attacked' myself the other way around (+still insecure on my skills). I would rather like for us to take a more positive stand 1/6 #dataviz

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Some interesting comments & quotes in this post. Personally I see quite a lot of innovation, and people pushing the boundaries of things, but I’m in a relatively small corner. On the criticism, I think this is a side-effect of #dataviz being both inherently creative and a relatively new field.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Gareth Southgate's knighthood in the #NewYearHonours is a good time to reshare this #dataviz I made showcasing the new standard he set while managing the England men's football team. Remarkable stuff! #football #sports #DataFam public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The designs of Krisztina make me jealous of her skills and great sense of style, but also simultaneously want to share with everyone in and outside the #dataviz realm. Brilliant is the word 😍 Have a look at her projects!

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Massive congratulations to Keely Hodgkinson on her BBC SPotY win! Her gold medal was one of the most dominant British performances of the #Paris2024 Games (even with my rather rough and ready #dataviz methodology). 🥇🏃‍♀️🏆 📊 public.tableau.com/views/GreatB...

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is great advice for any analysis project as well as structured/academic research

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I really like just about everything they do on NPR’s Tiny Desk, and Billie Eilish’s very stripped back set is a great example of why. Excellent adapted versions. youtu.be/fOAIrUZbOwo?...

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

One of the most surprising things about this is how often a baseball player has held the largest contract. I don’t think anyone would expect that if they weren’t familiar with the history of baseball.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · 10/12/2024

We were amazed by this week’s creative data visualizations. Check out the latest Data Vis Dispatch for ridgeline plots on climate, symbol maps on hunger, and maps on the collapse of the Assad regime. See them all here: blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispat…

Ridgeline plot showing the extent of sea ice in the Arctic every day from 1980-2024. Each line represents the daily anomaly in ice area relative to the 1981-2010 mean. There has been a long-term decline in Arctic sea ice, with fewer and fewer days having normal or excess ice. Published by the Financial Times.

Map of Syria showing the positions of government forces, HTS and allied opposition, Turkish opposition, and Kurds as of the evening of Saturday, December 7. Colored areas of control are overlaid on a basemap showing population centers. At the time, the main rebel coalition had advanced south into the city of Homs but not yet reached the capital in Damascus. Published in The New York Times.

Map of both sides of the globe highlighting countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia, as well as the main maritime routes of Russian gas in 2021 and 2024. An area chart shows that the volume of liquid natural gas exported from Russia by ship has not meaningfully changed since the start of 2022, with the EU, Japan, and China as significant importers. Published in Le Monde.

Satellite maps of new graves around the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan. Seven sites are shown, each with a number of graves from 41 to 393. The graves are marked with colored dots that track their appearance over time, from December 2023 to November 2024. There has been a steady increase in new graves, including a spike since the official declaration of famine in August of this year. Published by Reuters.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is fascinating. Really interesting to see how some rivers flow all over the place but others are more consistent in their heading

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Jared Beilby @beilby.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Barkley and Henry are in another class this season #dataviz #nflsky

Line chart showing cumulative rushing yards for the top 10 NFL rushers through Week 12 of the season. Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry are highlighted in teal and purple, respectively, with 1,392 and 1,325 rushing yards. Both lead by nearly 400 yards over the next closest rusher, who has 944 yards. The remaining eight rushers are shown in gray, clustered significantly below Barkley and Henry. A label reads ‘Rest of the top 10 rushers’ near the gray lines. The chart has evenly spaced Y-axis intervals from 0 to 1,250 and an X-axis labeled ‘Week’ from 1 to 12. Source: Pro Football Reference.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Reminds me of this great spectrogram #dataviz of what’s happening at each noise. Surprisingly (unsurprisingly?) complex. (Hat tip @kottke.org) www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-...

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The sound of the dialup, pictured

If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I find it helps me pick effective colours for my #dataviz if I’m keeping this in the front of my mind (not saying I always manage to keep it in the front of my mind though…)

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Can’t stop looking but also can’t look away. Is it looking back?

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is brilliant. A must read for anyone interested in sports analytics generally, or xG specifically.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Honestly, so many incredible map designs going on in the #30DayMapChallenge. I’d love to get them all in a book somehow.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Data person: Depends what you mean by "cup", "half", "full", and "empty".

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

For sure. If you like maps or any kind of visualisations then check them out

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pfakan.bsky.social @pfakan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dashboards. It's like sheep (one) and sheep (lots).

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Another great idea for a map style 👇 📊

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I am absolutely here for this explainer of using unequal bins for your colour scales, which leads nicely to his next point about using a discrete rather than continuous colour scale. Great stuff all round 👏

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Data Rocks @t.datarocks.co.nz · 20/11/2024

Beautiful breakdown. Tool defaults are often really bad starting points. The best dataviz are usually the ones that pay attention to the things that are nearly invisible to the untrained eye.

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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A map of the EU 27 which is made of the letters of the country names. Each country's shape is formed with the country name.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Oh what a beautiful map! 😍

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Experimenting with using this at work so I’ll have to give this a listen!

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Very cool map #datavis, very cool idea. @professorkao.bsky.social fancy a challenge? 😄

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Frederic Fery @fredericfery.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Join us this week! Sports Tableau User Group Nov 20, 7:00 – 8:00 PM (GMT+10) APAC friendly time Louis Yu, 2K Games: Staying Ahead of the Game! Penny Privett, Australian Football League (AFL): "Leveraging the power of data in sport" usergroups.tableau.com/events/detai...

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Sports Tableau User Group - APAC Friendly time! | Tableau

Virtual Event - Join the next Tableau Sport User Group event on November 20 for an exciting lineup of speakers! (APAC time zone friendly) Louis Yu from 2K Games will share insights on "Staying Ahead ...

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Even if you’re only planning on using LLMs as an interface for a #dataviz tool this is still a risk too. You might ask for total profit but the LLM might actually get the correct total for sales but tell you it is profit, and label it incorrectly.

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Mo Wootten @woomo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Somehow I don’t think I’ve seen drive charts before! These are awesome! Must have a go at making some

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Dr. Dominic Royé @drxeo.eu · 16/11/2024

Which country would you see from the Spanish coast 🏖️? Several years ago, @awoodruff.bsky.social made the fantastic world cartography of beach views from different continents for the first time. Since then, I have wanted to do something similar for the Mediterranean Sea using #rstats #dataviz

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