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Tuesday, October 12, 2010Visual Baseball: Rangers-Rays Game Five PaintomaticsPosted by Kevin DameHere's a look at what Rangers and Rays hitters will have flying at them in tonight's deciding Game 5. 
"The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte. Feel free to send comments, questions, and suggestions to Kevin via email. Comments
Kevin Dame said...
Yes, I am realizing that in past word clouds, Score Tracker, and Paintomatic I have the same issue with area vs. diameter and the software I have been using views size as diameter, not area. I’ve made the adjustments to the lee vs. price visuals and will continue that in future visuals. Thanks for the input! kd Posted 10/12 at 01:32 PM
J-Doug said...
If this gets updated and sent to my RSS feed one more time I’m unsubscribing from the HBT feed. Posted 10/12 at 06:18 PM
Kevin Dame said...
Apologies! I had no idea updating the image sent out new RSS feeds. Posted 10/12 at 06:45 PM
Jonathan said...
Bubble charts are difficult to interpret no matter how you do it. http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/bubble_chart/ Posted 10/13 at 02:28 AM
Ari Berkowitz said...
You could improve your paintomatics by separating 4-seamers and 2-seamers Posted 10/13 at 03:07 AM
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Kevin,
I think the impact on the viewer is proportional to the area of each circle. I also think that you are sizing the circles with the radius proportional to the fraction of usage of that pitch. But the area is proportional to the square of the radius, so you are greatly increasing the perception of the usage of the most common pitch, usually the fastball. For example, if a pitcher throws 70% fastballs, and 10% each curves, changeups and sliders, I think your circles would be proportioned 49 to 1. Thus biasing the perception of how many fastballs were thrown vs the other pitches. You should set the radius to the square root of the percentage.