Animating NBA Games with Matplotlib and Pandas
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13 min readNov 8, 2018
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…