Introduction

In the past 120 years, since the year 1892, the University of Illinois' men's football team played over 1,200 games of football. Many of these games are played against the same teams, year after year, creating both memories and rivalries. This visualization shows same-team winning streaks across the entire history of Illini football.

Legend

A circle represents each Illini game, colored based on win/loss. A circle represents each Illini game, colored based on win/loss. The larger the circle, the longer the winning streak. The larger the circle, the longer the winning streak.

Background and Sources

This visualization was initially used as a demo in CS 205: Data Driven Discovery, but was never published as a stand-alone visualization. As part of a presentation on Data Visualization to the Champaign-Urbana Data Science User Group, we walked through the design and creation of this work for sharing.

The dataset behind this data can be found on github: https://github.com/wadefagen/datasets/tree/master/illini-football