A 2012 study finds that 3 statistics are the attacking variables associated the most with winning.
Castellano, Casamichana and Carlos Lago showed that ball possession, the total number of shots, and the total number of shots on target were the most crucial attacking statistics associated with higher odds of winning.
So I scraped data from the match data website Flashscore.com, kept the data from the latest qualification rounds and produced a profile of all clubs for which data was available.
For quite a while now I have been submitting and managing Freedom of Information requests to more than a hundred universities in the United Kingdom.
While the issue around ever-skyrocketing costs of scholarly journals subscriptions isn’t news, I wanted to see whether, since the topic went in the mainstream, the awareness around it had any effect on what the universities are paying.
Birmingham City FC has been fined for breaking national minimum wage laws, newly released data reveals. The local club is part of a group of four that have been identified in the latest analysis by the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
The three others are St Helens RFC, Stoke City FC and Yeovil Town FC.
But the local city club and St. Helens RFC are by far the biggest offenders, owing each to their minimum wage employees more than £5,500.
Read more here and see how clubs reacted.
See below to explore in this Tableau dataviz which country sent how many athletes, by discipline and genre to Pyeongchang 2018.
I was fortunate enough to attend Data Journalism UK 2017, the event’s second edition. The conference was held at the BBC in Birmingham.
Among other things, a significant insight was that data and investigative journalism are now much more interested in local stories than ever before. Typically, ground-breaking investigations and data stories are developed with the national or regional picture in mind.
But recent initiatives like the BBC’s Local News Partnerships, the Bureau Local and Urbs Media are set to broaden investigations and data scrutiny to local governments and organisations.
See how by reading this article ➡️ https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/in-the-uk-data-journalism-and-investigations-are-getting-more-local-than-ever/s2/a714339/
