Roberto Angioni

This is really elite poasting, cheers

Started, going, etc.

Good demo here from Clara about why editorial framing decisions in chart design matters so much. Both chart date ranges are legitimate choices to make, both truthful, each show different story.

My latest for @optaanalyst.optajoe.com on the age breakdown of every Premier League squad:

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Live ATP rankings for players under 25 years of age

4 of the top 7 U25 players 🇮🇹🎾

2 - With tournament victories for Flavio Cobolli (Acapulco) and Luciano Darderi (Santiago), two Italians have won ATP-level events in the same week on different surfaces for just the second time in the Open Era, after Paolo Bertolucci (Florence) and Corrado Barazzutti (Charlotte) in April 1977. Wow.

Imagine you work your fingers to the bone as a ballboy and some idiot comes along and undoes all your hard work. Fuming.

I will say I've been counting seconds on long throws and if referees actually enforce a 5-second limit on throwins it should pretty well nerf most of the long throw game. I'm somewhat convinced that rule will work, if enforced.

i just don't enjoy watching football games decided by who's better at corners

Code is a liability, not an asset. AI is great and producing tonnes of code really fast, but you actually want the opposite. You want code being deleted because you've found better patterns/ways to solve those problems. Code is an expense, it doesn't directly generate revenue.

The people saying "AI can write all this code, so we don't need these people" forget that writing code is not the main part of the job description for a software engineer. It's the coordination and making sure you're writing the correct code that's the hard part. The meetings, design sessions, etc.

No, it's one observation per team per season, the points per game are just computed by dividing the points by the number of matches played

I think bar charts are the only chart type where you should start the axis at zero because you have decided to use the length of the bars to convey your message. In this case, they could have just used a regular line chart, which doesn't need to start at zero

The graphs show the density distribution of team points per game for each season. The team logos are placed at the corresponding value for each team. The dashed line roughly at the center of each distribution is the median, and the dash-dotted lines on the side are the 25th and 75th percentiles

Here's the same for the rest of the top 5 leagues. League imbalance is a Gini coefficient (a popular economic inequality metric) for points per game normalized by the theoretical maximum possible (1st team wins all games, 2nd wins all except vs 1st, etc.) in each league.

Found an excuse to make some flashy dataviz to display how different the points distribution in the 2025/26 Premier League is compared to recent seasons.

Credit to Juventus's kit designers for creatively evoking their heritage as Club That Does Crimes

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

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

23 of the 43 players originally entered into Dubai have now withdrawn or retired mid-match.

53%

Never seen anything like it.

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Really nice way to simplify the idea

Trens of court speed rating for the Rotterdam ATP tournament since the 90s, showing a downward trend

Fun fact: Rotterdam has been getting slower since the late 90s and is now relatively slow for an indoor hard court, with some recent exceptions (2020 and 2024). Wonder if that will be a factor in today's final between De Minaur and FAA

God it would be so awesome if they schedule her for the day I'll be there 🤞

Will be seated for every slice and every dropshot

A long time coming. Muchova finally gets a title that matches her talent. An incredible shot maker and tennis player. Finally healthy and playing like she always could.