On December 2nd, 2015 Rafa Nadal’s Academy asked their social media friends to share their location with the academy so they could create a map that showed off their global network of support. Over 1,000 of their friends responded via Twitter and Facebook and here we present the location of those 1,000+ friends. The academy commissioned GameSetMap to design and build the interactive map. View the map here.
Recently I had a chat with Geoff McGee who is a journalist and data visualizer at Stanford University’s Bill Lane Center for the American West about understanding tennis through data visualisation and analysis. The article featured on National Geographic’s Data Points website. National Geographic are pioneers and masters of story telling using data so it was a real pleasure to chat with them about my work.
The full article can be read here. Enjoy!