Melissa Denby

Midterm Project Description

I would like to create a data visualization comparing Duke and UNC during the times they’ve competed in basketball against each other. This is a big event locally (and sometimes nationally) when both teams play each other.

Specifically, I would like to explore which team has the most wins currently, the timeline of wins and losses between the two teams, and how home team advantage affected each outcome.

I have found a website that shows the statistics of wins and losses for each team, along with the venue and year of the game. I plan to use this data to create visuals comparing the two teams.

Duties:

Download data

Clean the data

Put data in an Excel chart

Create charts and graphs

Expected Deliverables:

Comparison of wins and losses

Number of wins/losses each team has had at home

A timeline of wins/losses

https://public.tableau.com/profile/melissa.denby#!/vizhome/UNCvs_DukeBasketball/Story1

Lingjie's comment:

The first thing I want to say is that I think Melissa efficiently applied Tableau to her work. Although these visualizations look simple, they do require careful arrangements of different variables’ locations – in rows, in columns or as filters inside. Especially in the visualization for wins/score of each team, she successfully showed the data involving three variables: year, teams and scores, in bar charts, which is a great example of filtering.

Also, for the visualizations, she basically used line graphs and bar graphs, which are simple yet efficient in comparing the score data of UNC and Duke Basketball teams. I think she also did great in choosing the color that represent each team. Just for the line graph of “Total Wins/Losses over History”, it is a little difficult to clearly recognize each team and read the data when the two lines overlap. I’m not sure if there’s a better way of showing the data of two teams in one graph, as I’ve also tried other tools, but they seem to be more confusing.

Generally, Melissa presented the information related to the two teams in a quite efficient way. I’ve learned a lot from her work and I really appreciate that.