Yep, that's totally fair! I went with the five most-attended leagues here but the WNBA would be a good addition. The NWSL has solid attendance too.

Thank you! This might be considered a beeswarm chart. I used Tableau to drive all the calculations. I made up my own formulas but I think this blog post from Ken Flerlage walks through it well too.

That's a great question! I'd also note that baseball continues adjusting its rules to improve watchability/pace of play, which isn't something you've seen much in other leagues. I enjoy baseball but I understand why it's a hard sell and attendance has been declining for years.

Thanks, I appreciate the kind feedback!

Yeah, you're right - i just went with the designations that were on Wikipedia

Thank you! I built it in Tableau using data largely sourced from Wikipedia. Here's the dataset in Google Sheets. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BgZJM4HKhIw9V_De8xq1askRJ5jUUEeuKn94snHWIFw/edit#gid=0

Ha, yes, totally fair - same thing for the Canadians playing for Canada-based clubs in MLS. Ultimately I went with the predominant flag of the league structure but I realize it would've been fair to use dragons + maple leafs too.

Definitely! The Premier League has a really strong tendency to bring the top English players back home. And now Bellingham is being linked with Liverpool and Arsenal, so it could be 26/26 soon...

Thanks, Mike! Hope you're doing well!

Almost all of them! You can check it out in the interactive version - if you mouse over a flag you'll see player details

https://twitter.com/boknowsdata/status/1592887077351587840

Interactive version here!

Tool: Tableau

Source: Wikipedia

Hah, yes… just felt like the episode drew more on the film. But you’re right, I could have changed that one.

Interactive version here.

Tool: Tableau

Source: Wikipedia

Yep, this comic always comes up with maps that look vaguely like population maps :) Randall Munroe actually spoke at Tableau Conference a few years ago, to tie the graph and the comic together!

That's why I included the bar graphs by state! But yes, always a risk when you're mapping cities.

Yeah, I think that's always a fair critique of maps of places, although I think there are at least a few interesting trends in this one. To me, if it looks like a population map, then the suffix is common but without a distinct regional pattern!

Tool: Tableau

Source: fbref.com

Here you go!

Thank you! Suffix map posted here.

These were made in Tableau.

Suffixes posted here!

Posted here!

Tool: Tableau

Source: simplemaps.com/data/us-cities

Yeah, it’s literally just a string calculation. So you’re right with this example.

Already working on one! If there’s solid interest in this one I’ll publish the suffixes version too.

Yeah! I can publish up an interactive version if that would be helpful…

Thank you!