CBS Bringing Fantasy statistics to life in 2010

Sensing they may have stumbled onto something powerful, CBS Sports has partnered with Tableau Software to create a whole slew of new interactive visualization products for fantasy baseball and football fans.  But just new visualizations isn’t all, they’ve issued a Call for Ideas to the community to see what new information you want!

Not only will the visuals you see be easy to understand and interpret, but they will also be interactive, allowing users to see exactly what they want while filtering out data not useful to them. We hope you enjoy our latest enhancement to help you win your league in 2010. What are your thoughts on the new feature? What visualizations might you like to see? We’d like to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

A big win for Tableau certainly, and could be a huge tool for fantasy fans (the hardcore fantasy fans spend as much time crunching statistics and numbers as most PhD physicists).  What would you like to see?

via Fantasy Baseball – Bringing Fantasy statistics to life in 2010 : FantasyNews.CBSSports.com.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .

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