Animating NBA Games with Matplotlib and Pandas

In this tutorial, game 7 of the 2016 NBA finals will be animated with Matplotlib one shot at a time within a Jupyter Notebook. This tutorial integrates many different topics including:

• Using the developer tools of a browser to discover non-public APIs
• Using the requests library to get data into a Pandas DataFrame
• Creating a static visual representation of an NBA court with shots from a game using Matplotlib
• Creating a Matplotlib animation showing the description, score, time remaining, and player image for each shot taken

Full Tutorial on Github

Only a portion of the code has been included in this post. Please visit the official Dunder Data Github organization’s Matplotlib Tutorials page to download the complete tutorial.

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