UConn Women's Basketball: A Sports Cartography Infographic

David Glassettwww.pvmaps.com @pvmaps

David Glassettwww.pvmaps.com


DATAThe red

columns are the ones I

started with.


DATAand the total number of games played for the proportional circles.

But I needed an ID for the

opponent schedule


DATAThis is how

the data looked all collected.


PROJECTIONI wanted

an oblique perspective,

but this made it look

ridiculous.


PROJECTION

NASA Blue Marble, April 2005

So I decided to use an imagery

base.


PROJECTIONI projected

it in QGIS into an

orthographic projection

centered at 10°S.


PROJECTIONPut within

my map frame, it gave the US a nice

oblique view.


DATA VISUALIZATIONHow do I tell

the story of UConn’s

dominance? I wanted to use college

pennants. A different

color for wins and

losses.

One pennant per game played was clearly getting out of hand fast.


DATA VISUALIZATIONSo I tried

using proportional

circles instead.

It was a good start, but I wanted more clarity on when these games were played across four seasons.


DATA VISUALIZATIONI decided to

use both the proportional

circles and pennants.

In addition, I added each season’s schedule. Every opponent was numbered and labeled.


FINAL VERSION


COPYRIGHTWhen I

tried to sell posters

online, I was informed

I was in violation of

copyright.

The UConn branding office told me that even the name of the university was copyrighted.


David Glassettwww.pvmaps.com

UConn Women's Basketball: A Sports Cartography Infographic

Design

Transcript of UConn Women's Basketball: A Sports Cartography Infographic