Basketball Data Analysis Kite

I still remember the first time I sat down with a shot chart from an NBA game. It was a messy grid of colored dots, each one representing a made or missed field goal attempt. At first glance it looked like abstract art. But once I understood what I was looking at, the patterns jumped out. A point guard who took most of his shots from the right side of the arc. A center who never stepped beyond the free-throw line. That was my introduction to what we now call basketball data