The Beautiful Game: How Data Visualization Can Change Football On and Off the Field

Visually analysing direct set pieces in football using StatsBomb Data, R, and Tableau

James Smith
Nightingale
Published in
14 min readJan 17, 2020

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May 21 2008. Moscow. Rain is pouring in the Luzhniki Stadium as John Terry steps up to take the penalty that will win the Champions League for the first time in Chelsea’s history.

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James Smith
Nightingale

Founder of SportsChord. Interested in sports analytics and visualization.