More Timeplotting

I made another timeplot similar to the Wimbledon Singles thing I produced earlier this month.

This one shows the final day of England’s win at Lords.

It reminded me of Tufte’s Sparklines, so I plugged the data file in to timetric, a Cambridge based company who will plot your data to a pretty graph if you give them a half-sensible URI.

Out popped this:

The Sparkline shows England’s odds of winning which went from ‘likely’ to ‘very likely’ shortly after 11am when Flintoff took the first wicket, indicated by the sudden drop in odds from 1.43 to 1.13 as the line starts. The visitors spent the next hour battling back to only to find the game effectively over when Swann took the second, as seen in the cliff-like drop in odds to 1.01 towards the centre of the sparkline.

You can visit the (bigger) graphs at my timetric page.

I think next time I’ll find a sport with multiple participants to see what lots of interspersed lines over the x-axis look like. The British Open golf would have been a neat example of this but I wasn’t in front of a computer yesterday, alas.