Weekly Viz 2020-06-15
Most Popular Sports Among US High School Boys and Girls
About Makeover Monday
MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”
Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.
The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.
Makeover Monday 20200615
This week, we are looking at the sports popularity among high school boys and girls in different US states. This dataset is an extension from this article, talking about popularity of soccer among high school girls. Seems like the great achievement of US women’s national soccer team has greated a very good positive feedback – more girls are participating in this sport, and enabling the women soccer team to continue its success in the future.
My Visualization
Since the dataset provides numbers for both boys and girls, and by states, I am putting top popular sports of boys and girls side by side for an easier comparison.
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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
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Insights
- For high school boys, Football (11-player) is the sport that dominates most states, except a few states in the north, and this has always been the case since 2000s;
- But for high school girls, there are more variance among the states – most of the states in the middle are dominated by volleyball, but there are many other popular sports like basketball, soccer, track and field, etc.
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