Here I put together a map animation showing the various locations of UFC events that have taken place worldwide. From November 12, 1993 (UFC 1) to June 6, 2020 (UFC 250), there’s been a total of 518 events and UFC has visited 161 cities and 28 countries.
The goal behind this project was to produce a racing bar chart showing the top 15 UFC fighters with the most number of UFC fights over time. The match data used here was obtained by web scraping the results tables from UFC event Wikipedia pages. The charts are build using D3.js and Javascript.
The motivation behind this project is to compile a dataset of matches from past UFC events. The data collection was performed via web scraping using Python and Beautiful Soup.