Margin by Game (/Round)

Revisiting NBA player data - via nba_api

I’m starting to pull together some player data for the NBA 2021/22 season, and have started with the Nets. I didn’t really follow the last season that closely, and thought that plotting a heatmap of minutes played, sorted by total minutes played, might be a handy way to presenting a summary of a season.

Results by Electoral District

Although informative, reviewing the results by polling place (see previous post) is potentially deceptive as the number of votes is not easily interpretable through the size of markers representing the geographic location of the polling places. When the votes are presented by electoral district (Figure 1), the results appear slightly stronger because regional areas are disproportionately emphasised visually due to their geographic coverage, i.e. the lower population density in regional areas is not reflected within the polygons of the choropleth map. Another difference is that the clustering of voting for the FFMPs along coastal areas and towns that we saw when reviewing results at the polling place level is obscured.