Over at Daring Fireball, John Gruber is makes a passing observation about the Apple Sports app: I’ve got some gripes about certain specific aspects of Apple Sports. Like, where does one even start to explain how much is wrong with their zero-sum visualization of team stats? Has anyone ever even seen a presentation like that before? Anyone? That “Anyone” link lands over here. Hi everyone! The team stats image is quite confusing. It’s a summary of a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Oklahoma City Thunder. I don’t know much about basketball, but I do know a bit about data visualization and in a pleasing coincidence my former student Josh Fink is the A-VP of Basketball Data Science for the Spurs. Here is the image that John objected to: I had to look at it for a while as well. I just finished driving a very long way up the side of the country, so I’m kind of tired. But even allowing for that, boy, this way of representing things really is quite confusing. Not being an Apple…
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