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Behind the NCAA Visualizer: Python, R and JavaScript

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Rodrigo Zamith's NCAA Tournament Visualizer is a great example of an interactive data visualization. If you want to create something similar, Rodrigo has shared detailed behind-the-scenes information on how it was created. He used a mix of tools:

  • Python was used to scrape team statistics fromt the NCAA website
  • R was used to prepare the data for analysis, and to generate the visualizations (using the ggplot2 package)
  • JavaScript and HTML was used to create the interactive interface

Many thanks go to Rodriguo for making all of the code behind the application available on GitHub as open source.

Rodrigo Zamith: Going Under the Hood of the NCAA Tournament Visualization

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