I saw a great data visualization made by Craig Booth on the height and weight of every NFL player: http://www.craigmbooth.com/height-and-weight-of-every-active-football-player/. He and I bonded over the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have viewed our data visualizations that take just a few hours to put together, but only a handful of people have ever read our doctoral dissertations (which took many years to put together). I suppose it’s because sports are more broadly accessible than outer space. I never really trusted science, anyway J

In honor of the start of a new basketball season, I decided to generate a similar visualization using NBA player data; these values reflect the final rosters for the 2013-2014 season.

Go Blazers! (Yes, I know it’s hopeless, but I can always dream…)

Data sources: http://espn.go.com/nba/teams; http://www.nba.com/teams/