How To Make A NBA Jam Style Small Multiple

Plus Who's Hiring

Welcome back to The F5.

Today, I’ve got a tutorial on how to recreate the following plot. I was going for a NBA Jam aesthetic mixed with a retro VHS cover.

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Who’s Hiring

But first, let’s take a look at who’s hiring in the wider sports analytics universe.

• 🏀 Los Angeles Lakers - Associate Basketball Developer

• 🏀 Los Angeles Lakers - Database Analyst

• 🏀 Orlando Magic - Basketball Analytics Graduate Associate

• 🏀 Swish Analytics - Basketball Data Scientist

• 🏀 NBA League Office - Machine Learning Engineer (Automated Officiating)

• 🏀 Hawk-Eye - Director of Basketball Operations

• ⚾ Philadelphia Phillies - Senior Software Engineer

• ⚾ United Talent Agency / KLUTCH - Senior Analyst, Baseball Operations

• 🏈 Electronic Arts (EA) - Advanced Analyst (American Football)

• ⚽ Major League Soccer (MLS) - Director, Business Insights & Analytics

• 🤖 Sportradar - Senior Data Engineer

• 🤖 ESPN - Statistics Analyst

• 🤖 CBS - Sports Researcher

I’m going to make an effort to start sharing these kinds of jobs on a semi-regular basis. To start, I’ll make this at least a monthly feature for paid subscribers. If you’re hiring and want to have a job posting listed on The F5, just reply to this email or send me a DM.

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How To

scroll to the end for the full code without commentary

The data for this plot is going to come from my database of NBA referee behavior. But let’s begin by loading some packages and setting a custom theme for our eventual plot.