Articles
Written around
a dataset.
Football, mostly written because I'd just finished building the data and wanted to know what it said. Where a piece came out of a dashboard, the dashboard is one click away.
Five pieces · ordered by readership on Medium
A striker who scored freely for one season and then stopped. Was the collapse real, or was it fixtures, chance quality and a change of shirt?
Bielsa's teams are said to run themselves into the ground by spring. Is the drop-off measurable, or a story that fits a few famous cases?
Full-back selection is where reputation does the most work. Comparing the shortlist on what actually happened across the tournament.
"Midfielder" describes three genuinely different jobs. What separates them, and why comparing players across the boundary tells you almost nothing.
A striker written off twice over, carrying a Forest season almost on his own. Told through the numbers.
Behind the writing
Two of these five started as a dashboard.
I build the data first, then write about whatever it turns out to say. Six dashboards are on Tableau Public, open to poke at.