Drive charts are excellent ways of visually summarising football game data. They are certainly not new. Here’s one Brinton showed in the mapping section of his book:
We can recreate these today in Tableau as explained in Dave Andrade’s blog.
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The big media companies all use Drive Charts to show their data. I like the pseudo-SD nature of the NFL’s charts and the clarity of those on the Seattle Times.
![image](https://66.media.tumblr.com/a1d98f8c8ddc892c44c0bf07e2ae63a4/tumblr_inline_pc7qjiBo671sr3w0m_540.jpg)
Do you have any favourites?
Does anyone know when the drive chart was first used?
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