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Sports Viz Sunday is a place for people to combine two of the greatest things in the world: Sports and data.

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Welcome To SportsVizSunday

Sports Viz Sunday is a place for people to combine two of the greatest things in the world: Sports and data. We frequently release new datasets for you to pull insights out of and share in the form of data visualisation. Share your entry through the hashtag #SportsVizSunday on Twitter and keep up with the blog to see what other sports fans are creating.


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Table of Contents
  1. About The Project
  2. Getting Started
  3. Contributing
  4. Contact
  5. How To Download Data

Latest Challenges

Below you can view a rolling 10 lastest challenges. Feel free to explore the repository for any other dataset, we have split them by sport.

Challenge Month Sport Data Deadline Created By
Aug 23 Netball Data Oct 23 Mo Wootten
Games Night Viz Fifa / esports / beer mile Data Feb 23 Will Sutton
VizIt London Premier League Shot Data 21/22 Data Nov 23 Team
Dec 22 Baseball - Pedro Martinez Data Jan 23 Kate Brown
Oct 22 Rowing World Championships Data Dec 22 Simon Rowe
Aug 22 CommonWealth Games Data Sept 22 Mo Wootten
July 22 The 150th Open Championship Golf Data Aug 22 Kate Brown
Jun 22 Data Plus Music Collaboration Data July 22 Simon Beaumont
May 22 World Snooker Championships Data June 22 Simon Rowe
April 22 Indy500 Data May 22 Simon Beaumont
March 22 Women In Data Data April 22 Kate Brown, CJ Mayes, Mo Wootten

Getting Started

Taking part is easy! All you need to do to submit your work is use the hashtag #SportsVizSunday on Twitter for one of the team to see it. We also have a repo tracking the different submissions and interactions with the team here SVS Tweet Tracker

All Datasets

Occasionally we will drop a new dataset into the repo that you can get involved in. We have over 100 other datasets sitting within our repo that we would love for you to check out. They can be accessed through the data tab, or click here.

Contributing

Contributions are what make our community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. If you have a data set you would like to contribute towards a future challenge, or wamt to partner with SportsVizSunday. Please reach out to one of the team.

Contact

CJ Mayes - @_CJMayes
Mo Wootten - @Mo_Wootten
Simon Beaumont - @SimonBeaumont04
Simon Rowe - @MrRoweUK

How To Download Data

We recognise not everyone wants to have a GitHub account nor want to learn how to check out or clone repositories. The easiest way to download a specific dataset is to navigate to the data folder

How do I download an xlsx?
Click through to a dataset, find the sport you like and click download in the top right of the pane.

If you get stuck please visit here

How do I download a csv?
To download a CSV from GitHub simply navigate to your desired repository. Select the CSV file
Right click the Raw button at the top of the file, select Save Link As and choose the location on your computer where you want to save the file, and select Save, making the extension a csv

If you get stuck please visit here

Visualising Our DataSets

This is an example of all of our Sports Data files

Visualization of this repo