USWNT Roster Info Visualized with Tableau

Part of my 180 Days of Learning Data Viz. As a fan of soccer who is continuing to celebrate the USWNT victory at the World Cup (woo hoo Title IX is the gift the keeps on giving!). I pulled roster information from the USWNT website after the World Cup by going into the table view and extracting it into Excel. I did some basic data clean-up so I could have values I wanted to work with, just some text-to-columns and formatting values in Excel.

Goal Visualizations

Basically, Abby Wambach is a beast and and incredible outlier, far and away ahead other offensive threats like Alex Morgan and Calri Lloyd. From a visualization standpoint, trying to practice discipline in terms of keeping colors minimal so they have meaning and are easy to look at in general, versus a random assortment of colors.

Where the Players Are From

Nice contingent of Californians and folks from Jersey. Tried to do a Red, White, and Blue thing here but it doesn't work great with random shading and only having Preview as my tool to re-size images.

Where the Players Play

Pro-tip, you can catch the NSWL League games live on Youtube. Also, if anyone can tell me when is a legit situation to use this circles visual in Tableau, I'd be happy to hear it.

Player Year Born

For more #USWNT, I really enjoyed Behind the Crest:

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