March 19, 2010, 10:38 am
It’s Tournament Time
By Henry Woodbury
The Mens Division I NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket is one of the most iconic images in U.S. sports. Voila:
So what can an information designer do with this?
Cliff Kuang at Fast Company looked around the web to find out. His selection for “best designed bracket” goes to NBC Sports:
Why? Because it’s a bonafide [sic] infographic–basically a cheat-sheet that allows anyone with only a passing interest in college basketball to sound smart after about five minutes of studying.
The NBC Bracket is here. It’s interactive, but broken. Hey NBC! Fix that absolute positioning.
Update: It’s fixed now.
Comments
This one is not bad, but as I wanted some time ago to draw your attention to something else, I thought you might firnd this one also interesting..
http://businessinnovationfactory.com/nhf/multimedia/opportunity-map
Warm greetings
zb
Posted by Zbigniew Becker on March 25, 2010 at 6:33 am
This is my favorite sports visualization created by my friend, Jason Bailey. He combined his love of basketball and a database of player statistics to visualize the player’s performance in one season. The result is interesting and humorous at the same time.
Posted by elaine froehlich on April 9, 2010 at 10:13 am
http://jasonrbailey.com/jason/Stats2/
Posted by elaine froehlich on April 9, 2010 at 10:13 am