Here’s a presentation slides to a UFC data analysis project I recently put together. The motivation behind the project was to analyze UFC match data and identify interesting patterns and trends in the sport. The data was scraped from http://ufcstats.com/ and provide comprehensive statistics on fighters and matches from past events. The collected data included events from UFC 1 (Nov 12, 1993) to UFC on ESPN (May 30, 2020).
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.