An information scientist’s assessment in 5 plots
In July and August 2023, Australia and New Zealand hosted the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup. A complete of 32 nationwide groups competed, with Spain taking residence the trophy for the primary time. Main sporting occasions all the time generate loads of knowledge, and I took this as a possibility to discover ways to use Plotly.
Plotly is an open supply graphing library for creating interactive plots. It may be used offline or on-line and integrates with numerous programming languages. I’m utilizing Python, as I’m most conversant in it, and creating static plots. The code is accessible on GitHub.
In 5 knowledge tales, we’ll check out totally different plotly options and illustrate attention-grabbing info concerning the historical past of the World Cup and this 12 months’s match:
- Historic World Cup participation
- Participant age and match efficiency
- Gamers’ golf equipment
- International locations sending probably the most energetic gamers
- Males’s and Ladies’s World Cup prize cash as compared
1: Participation within the Ladies’s World Cup
Traditionally, ladies have been banned from taking part in soccer in lots of nations. The German Soccer Affiliation (DFB) determined in 1955 that “the dearth of magnificence may injury the fragile physique and soul of girls and can be an assault on morals and society”. It was not till 1970 that the ban was lifted. At the moment, ladies play soccer around the globe, with restrictions remaining in only some nations.
Our first knowledge story exhibits the participation of nationwide ladies’s soccer groups within the World Cup as a bar chart. Because the first version in 1991, the match has been held 9 occasions. Nations from each continent have participated. Some have participated in each World Cup, whereas others have participated solely as soon as. I used to be stunned to see that North Korea participated 4 occasions!
That is the code to generate the static bar chart. The legend is moved from its default place on the best to…
