Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: NBA

  • NBA Champions and Scoring Data: Further Reflections

    In the last post, I looked at a few statistical measures to get at just how exceptional the 2014 San Antonio Spurs were in relation to previous NBA champions, particularly in regards to their approach to scoring. By those measures, they had the least ‘top-heavy’ distribution of points of any NBA champion, and it wasn’t…

  • NBA Champions & Scoring Data: Some Initial Impressions about the 2014 Spurs

    NBA Champions & Scoring Data: Some Initial Impressions about the 2014 Spurs

    One of my personal/professional goals for this summer has been to learn how to work with and visualize data. I want to know how to make beautiful data visualizations, and tell interesting stories with the use of data. To that end, I’ve started working through some self-directed reading, and signed up for a couple of…