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An example of something I made with matplotlib: https://streamable.com/dui9k

If there's a time dimension, there should be an animation.

Like that a lot, is that under-pinned chyronhego data by any chance?

Thanks! That's actually data I collected myself.

This animation is part of a blog post I just published [1]. I also have a notebook on github with an example (data & code - [2])

[1] - https://medium.com/football-crunching/the-zone-where-it-happ...

[2] - https://github.com/rjtavares/football-crunching/blob/master/...

If you're using the animation to add another axis to the plot, that can be extremely useful. But using it to make annotations zip around the screen would be pathetic.

It's useful in that it allows visualising an extra dimension, most likely time, but I agree it has great potential for misuse. Also it doesn't work on printed material.