大开眼界+多图惧点：Pokémon x NBA and other fun with ggimage

我一般不转贴，除非是像这种使用我的软件做出了吸引我眼球的东西，那么还是要分享一下的。

Note that for you’ll have to include BioC repo for dependencies, and, if using , setRepositories(ind=1:2).

The summary statistics are for each of the NBA teams during the 2016-17 regular season, through 2017-04-12 acquired through , the R wrapper for the .

Team vs Opponent Avg Points by Type

Use for better formatting of text labels.

Now with Pokémon

In , a fun little package by , you can map and use images in the gggplot2 graphic system. It comes with a few already-defined geometries, including geom_pokemon(), which inspired this whole endeavor.
Because I don’t actually know the Pokemon (sorry), I’ve matched each team to its NBAmixes.com counterpart as re-imagined by artist to the best of my ability. Sometimes the  weren’t of an actual Pokémon creature thing (sorry, I’m trying) or were  of a Pokémon that didn’t have an image counterpart in the package, in  which case, I just kind of guessed. You can see the team logos in their  full-sized glory in Micah’s (plus, a couple “throwback” extras– e.g. Onix Sonics).

NBA Teams using 1st generation Pokemon by Micah Coles
To make things a bit more visually palatable, I’m also going to use one of ’ “opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes” from the package.

Geometries of our own?

We could use any geometry we like, really. And, given the fact that  the Pokémon matches are a little vague, we might try for something that  actually makes some semantic sense. Let’s try using some  super-cool-looking made by .

Minimalized logo/icon work for every NBA team by Matt Miro

Possession-Adjusted Averages

Let’s try another geom

Artist did a series of illustrations for NBA team jerseys that:

combin[ed] all 30 team jerseys with advertising from some of the largest  corporate entities in the same city or state as the team.

Since we’re using ,  we can just use a path to the images (which I shrunk down from their  original size) to use the jerseys as “shapes” for our plot by defining a  function for the new geometry.

Minimalist NBA Jerseys x Forbes List by Robb Harskamp

Regular NBA logos?

Why not? In reality, there are many reasons not to use  anything of the sort as far as visualization best practices go. However,  we might as well go for it, since we’ve gone this far down the rabbit  hole…

Superhero mashups?

These were tricky for me to figure out! I might actually be wrong about some of them, but they’re just so cool-looking…

NBA x Superhero Mashup

The illustrations are from another piece, , done by artist(s) at .