Wikipedia World Cup Information Graphic/ table

 

Late night post - so ill be brief - 

There is tonnes of data generated by sport 

Sports fans love data.

so - there should be more sports graphics - i found this one on wikipedia - its great - reading down you get a great feel for trends in world cup performance - not just showing the winners but those in the running each year- uruguay's demise, germany's victories every four or five cups (eek) and holland's knocking on the door, spain's total absence (maybe this is the year spanish friends?)  i wont mention englands poor showing

what is obvious is that these are chartable because actual data of Placing exists - mapping the next ten places down is harder as many teams came joint 5th or 6th by not making the semis - but i reckon some better wrangling of group stage data could help 

that is where we all need to get better at thinking about the data a well as what it looks like

but this is ace - well done wikipedia - i've obviously gone a bit world cup stupid but maybe i'll set this as my next student project - 

Comments

[Guy Gadney]

Hey - Try this one.... Actually quite useful as well. Thinking about how it form part of a personalised animated calendar but maybe that would complicate it.

http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

[Ciaran Hughes]

Or what about this one from 1994
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gHorOt6KKw
with its interactive graphic about 1.10 in?

[Al]

Hi - we put together a World Cup calendar that you might be interested in. see http://www.think-positive.net.