A look at every shot Vince Carter took as a Toronto Raptor

This is an experiment with the NBA stats API and the capabilities of Mapbox GL and its extrusion option. Link to project: https://willymaps.github.io/cartershots/

To create this we used QGIS to build the court/net polygons and binned the shots using the MMQGIS plugin.

Great tutorial on shot maps/court design: http://savvastjortjoglou.com/nba-shot-sharts.html

Some other inspirational shot maps: L.A. Times, Gregory Brunner, and a short write-up on Maps Mania

The godfather: https://twitter.com/kirkgoldsberry