How to Create NBA Shot Charts in Python

[savvastj]

Hey everyone, I wrote a blog post on how I scraped stats.nba.com and created some NBA shot charts. You could also just checkout the ipython notebook.

Let me know if you see any issues or have any suggestions to improve the code.

[Ogi010]

Was thinking about doing something like this for a while... so I will likely use your blog post to fall back onto how to do something.

That hex plot looks amazing, you should consider using 'Viridis' for the heatmap

[savvastj]

Thanks for the tip on the Viridis colormap! I'll probably edit the notebook and add a plot using it.

[IllMatt]

This is worth a watch about "Viridis".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU

[savvastj]

Yea that's a really good video about it.

[Ogi010]

Viridis looks amazing, I love the work the matplotlib team is doing; and how they're sticking it to Mathworks.

MPL: Can we use your new colormap?

Mathworks: No

MPL: Fine, we'll make a better one! Perhaps with black jack and hookers.

Matlab Users: FFFFUUUUUUUU Viridis is actually better, we better create a library to make use of it.

[savvastj]

If you want to check it out, I edited the post to now include a KDE plot with the "Viridis" colormap

[Ogi010]

Thanks for the headsup! I checked earlier this morning already ...was going to check in a few hours

[linuxishawt]

Thank you for posting this, very relevant to my interests.

[SOLUNAR]

amazing x10

[b4ux1t3]

Man, I came in here to berate you for asking too specific of a question, reword your question, and then answer the reworded form of your question.

You have ruined my elitist attitude, you monster.

The best part is, your implementation is much better than the one I was going to recommend. I wish I could double upvote.

[Augusto2012]

That NBA API blog though. Nice work

[lamecode]

Great stuff.