Power of Data Visualization

Statisticians and data freaks are already doing the World Cup number crunching – possibly the most interesting piece of statistical information that has surfaced from the torrent of World Cup data feeds comes from a study that recently carried out an analysis of the economic value of the players from some of the World Cup’s most successful teams.

FIFA actively encourages teams with bonus payments for good results at the World Cup.

Based on the curve pattern on the left side of the bracket, Uruguay will go to the finals, while Netherlands will go for 3rd place match. On the left side of the bracket, zig-zig pattern will lead Germany to the finals while Spain is heading for the 3rd place match.

There are certainly many models, which try to “calculate” which team will win the 2010 soccer world cup. Looking at the teams that already dropped out, the range of models which were obviously not predicting correctly gets quite big. Here is a visualization of my favorite:

Millions of people around the world have been actively supporting or complaining about their favorite teams and players. Below, players are sized according to the number of mentions on Facebook during each day of the World Cup.

Sales intelligence firm Inside View has been gathering data about our economy and productivity during the World Cup. Globally, we’ve been a bunch of slackers over the past month. Around 80% of the world’s population has been watching at least some part of the games, which have been going on since June 11, 2010 and will continue until July 11.

The Wall Street Journal is going the full 90 as it tracks every goal scored in the 2010 World Cup. Sort by player, country, club team and more.