Peter McKeever
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Senior Data Viz Developer. I do front-end for @OptaAnalyst and draw things with code. 👨🏻💻⚽️. Matplotlib / react/svelte + d3 💚. 🇮🇪➡️🇩🇪. Dad²
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Shot distance in the top 5 European leagues continues to fall year on year
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so this is still a few weeks away from being available, but I will have a web app that will allow you to collect your own xG data for most leagues. There will also be a scratch pad for non team stuff, like if you want to know what the xG of your Sunday League world was ;)
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Latest look at chance creators across Europe's top five leagues
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The 20 players with the highest total carry progression in Europe's top 5 leagues.
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Delighted to get started in my new role as Data Visualisation Editor for
@OptaAnalyst
. Data Journalism is something I've wanted to do for a long long time 👨💻📊
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Finally tally of this seasons most prolific creators in the Premier League.
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OPEN SOURCE FOOTBALL UPDATE:
Not the finished product, but I choose some random inputs to give you all an idea of how it looks. There is an editable table for users incase they make a mistake (like I did) and need to edit a field/delete a row :).
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Here's an update on zones of control for the Premier League after the weekend's fixtures.
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Messi is just always on another level. 6 goals and 5 assist following a carry. One of those goals and one of those assists came last night. 56 of his carries resulted in a shot or a chance created. The second highest in the leagues is Ødegaard with 39.
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Petition to force club social media to list players by position instead of number on their line up graphics.
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I've been told to champion my accomplishments so this is the tweet... But as an Irishman I'm extremely self-deprecating by nature and feel real awkward about this .... but I was nominated for and won an award from ~500 colleagues in our company for my work on the Analyst...
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Chance creation in Europe's top 5 leagues so far this season.
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Very very very happy to say I‘ve accepted a data analyst role with
@OptaPro
. Knutson‘s Law is true. Learn to code, show what you can do and work hard. Can’t wait to start my dream job!! 😍⚽️✨
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Harry Maguire has the highest PV for progressive carries of every CB in the Premier League with more than 500 minutes.
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Here'a look at the most prolific creators in Europe's top 5 ahead of the international break
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Jack Grealish has been involved in 59% of Villa's shot-ending sequences this season!
Also a new viz :)
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Delighted to say I’ve signed a contract extension with Stats Perform FC that will see me off the bench and back in the first team with a more senior role. Expect a lot more viz, articles, and a lot more cool shit on The Analyst!
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First unit plot of season 2021-22. How are the top chance creators making chances for their teammates so far this season?
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Here's a look at the top creators for the U23 squads across the two divisions of PL2
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Hey, here's our full predictions for Euro 2020! check it out in full detail here:
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New viz from me looking at shooting efficiency in Europe's top 5 leagues
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Open Source Football will be available from now until next week for you to play around with! Send me a DM if you've any questions, bug reports, suggestions. Members area coming next! Enjoy and share!! :D
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Liverpool have the most unbalanced delivery into the box from the wings so far this season
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The most prolific chance creators across Europe's top 5 leagues, featuring Jack Grealish ahead of Lionel Messi ....
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Yo, it would be great if you did not cut off my credit when reposting my work.
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New! Or old? I've rewritten an old tutorial on drawing football pitches with python and matplotlib. Slow going but getting the tutorials back
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Only three games in, but worrying that Arsenal are continuing to lose the ball so often in their own third
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🐍🐍 Thread:
There is so no secret formula. There are no shortcuts (if you think you've found one you'll waste hours and realise there was a simple answer all along). You just have to start from step one, like any language, you need the foundations before you can experiment.
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Hey, I've written a thing for the first time in about 2 years. It is now the only thing on my website. Be gentle
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This is illegible, but I'm having so much fun creating viz that looks hand-drawn 😍
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Also finally got round to making my Zones of Control graphics interactive!
All English leagues and Scottish Premiership up so far
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Make your viz as good as they can be. The first render is not the end product. Had the privilege of going over every single part of my graphics with Tom when he was at Stats Perform. You never know when you‘ll be presenting it to your subject so do it right. Great job,
@Worville
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Looking forward to giving this lecture on Thursday, but not as much as I'm looking forward to finishing writing it!
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Probably a bit of an information overload on these, but here's looking at Adama's touches this season.
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Hey tweeps, almost two weeks ago my boy was born! Taking some time away from work in December to be with the family and keep our daughter entertained so apologies if responses are slow if you’re looking for me. Back in January!
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"People are just freaking out, because he had this game against Spurs. When you see his complete season, he is just not THAT good and lacking consistency."
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Couldn't sleep last night so had a play around with instance plots. Here's looking at the top 6 teams in England's winning streaks since 2006
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Only Burnley and Liverpool have less than 100 high turnovers against this season.
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Playing around with new viz styles. Obviously tiny sample claxon with so few games played this season (hence all shots).
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Bruno Fernandes has been involved in more shot-ending sequences for his team than any other player across Europe's top 5 leagues (52%)
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Wrote this for
@OptaPro
:
I want to talk a bit about this diamond plot from the article before the Squared Axis Purists come moaning from their air-conditioned rooms. Also want to give some advice to myself when I first started vizzing in python [thread]
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I've gone into a bit more detail about the app here. If you've any questions or suggestions I'll be collecting them from the comments :). Really appreciate the feedback so far!
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I’ve gotta say ..When I started working with Opta I had my eyes set on migrating into the data science team and working on models, but the work I have done in developing web apps and graphics and now doing the interactive for the Analyst ... there’s nothing else I’d rather do.
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If you‘re interested in sports, graphics, and wants to learn/improve how to code, create graphics, and write data-driven articles with a focus on sport, I‘d be happy to mentor a person under-represented in the community - that is POC and/or women. Send me a DM if interested!
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Playing around with different ways of highlighting player selection
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Rough idea of a new viz I'm playing around with using some of our added contextual event information
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Still very much a work in progress, but I've made a Python package for working with
@StatsBomb
's free data. Check it out here and get in touch if there's anything you'd like to see included
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*New viz from me*.
It's been ages since I've done any of my beeswarm plots. Here's looking at xG above or below a player's team when they are involved in chances vs when they are not.
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New viz in the works from me. Apologies for the lack of player labels for now - that'll be on the interactive!
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Took a look last night at how players in Europe's top 5 are creating chances for their teammates this season.
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How have some of the best creators at the Euros made chances for their team mates?
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Probably had the best day of my entire working career. No accolades or anything just working on a fun and challenging project that you will get to enjoy soon. So grateful and proud to have convinced someone to pay me to do this for a living. Data viz is where it’s at 📈👨🏻💻
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I've been waiting for this all summer! We've now started collecting control events so we have a true(r) idea of player carry paths. A lot more to come on these over the coming weeks as this opens up a lot of interesting areas of exploration
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Hey, my viz was published in German newspaper Die Welt, looking at likely winners and losers in the Bundesliga :). I also gave a short overview of the model if you speak German
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Can't decide on a colour that I like, but I'm in love with this font, and Kylian Mbappé
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How has match time given to younger players changed since 2009 across European leagues?
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Here's a look at Auba's non-penalty xG since 2019/2020, except make it look more hand-drawn :D
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Here's a look at the most creative players under 23 from across Europe.
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Jack Grealish is involved in 65 out of 100 of Aston Villa's open play shot-ending sequences.
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Started with
@OptaPro
yesterday. Such a positive environment with some great people working on next level stuff. Dream job 😍📊⚽️
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Here's a look at age profiles across leagues since 2009. Lots of take aways from this that merit further study, but I can't stop looking at
#eredivisie
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Bruno Fernandes is involved in 55 of every 100 sequences that end in a shot for Man United. The second highest involvement rate across Europe's top 5 leagues. Answers on a postcard for the
#1
spot..
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Today I took a look at plotting x,y match data in python. Have a read!
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Youri Tielemans is involved in 54 of every 100 sequences that end in a shot for Leicester. The joint highest involvement rate across Europe's top 5 leagues.
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I started out this career wanting to be a data scientist, fell in love with creating graphics and automation tools for people to use and now I build front end stuff and do graphics (and still build tools for our editorial guys)…
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I’m amazed by the amount of data analysis job adverts (outside of sport) that are clearly data science or data eng roles or a roll up of all three.
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More art than analysis, but trying out some new things on a work in progress. This is looking at all shots binned by distance to goal. Most likely won't render well on twitter but will share a link soon.
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