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Rugby World Cup 2019: Where are the England players from?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/rugby-world-cup-19

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Rugby World Cup 2019: Where are the England players from?

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/rugby-world-cup-19
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2019-11-06T14:43:07.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-11-07T10:05:28.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:13.182Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: rugby, rugbyunion, rwc, sport
• Language: HTML
• Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50240391
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Rugby World Cup 2019: Where are the England players from?

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1700/production/_109488850_rugbymapfinal.png)

In November 2019, ahead of England's appearance in the Rugby World Cup final, we [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50240391) on the background of the squad.

## Get the data

* XLSX: [England rugby squad demographics](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/rugby-world-cup-19/blob/master/England%20Rugby.xlsx) - data compiled manually from the RFU and reports

## Quotes and interviews

* John Williams, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leicester

* Neil Harris, head of rugby, St George's School, Harpenden

## Visualisation

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/143FA/production/_109483928_stackedbarforrob-nc.png)

* Map: Birthplaces of squad's English-born players

* Stacked bar chart: numbers of players by area and position (script for drawing the map [can be found here](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/rugby-world-cup-19/blob/master/rwc.Rmd))

An unused Sankey diagram of squad positions and birthplaces was also created - shown below:

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/rugby-world-cup-19/master/rugbysankey.png)