Infographics are all the rage! Check out the blog Information Is Beautiful for some examples of other types of infographics. I felt inspired so I decided to create my own on the topic of NCAA Aquatic Sport Participation (download source statistics).
Not to play the blame game, but when you visualize the stats as a graphic, you can really see how few NCAA athletes are playing aquatic sports. I wish I could make a similar graphic with budget distribution but I don’t have the data. Remember, because it’s an infographic, everything is perfectly to scale – enjoy!
2 Comments:
Synchronized swimming is not an NCAA sport, so your block inside of the women’s sports doesn’t really belong.
You are correct, synchronized swimming is not a championship NCAA sport. However, the numbers that I used from the report (and I should have been more specific) were the total number of participants from championship sports and “emerging sports”.
The total number of Women NCAA athletes in championship sports is 180,347 – compared to a grand total of 182,503 championship and non-championship athletes. My square represents the champ/non-champ total, and therefore includes synchronized swimming.
http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/PR2010.pdf
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