Weekly inspiration #39: World Cup visualizations
July 5th, 2010 by Sandbox
Something we love at Sandbox is discovering new ways to look things. Like all big events, the World Cup 2010 comes with its lots of visualizations. We have picked the 4 best ones for you below:
Lego Replays
Fabian Moritz, a young German football fan, is creating Lego replays of some of the World Cup games, with the original television commentary. The full collection can be found here.
New York Times visualizations
The New York Times offers an analysis of every game, including lineups and heat maps – decomposed minute by minute.
Another great feature by the New York Times presents the World Cup players by size, depending of the number of their Facebook mentions on a specific day.
Guardian’s Twitter replays
The Guardian offers a Twitter replay of every game, showing the importance of a range of keywords as the game progresses. Usually at the beginning, people are looking for “free” places to “watch” the game “online”, then the initials of the team burst in different sizes depending of the action.
Antoine is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Sandbox. He is currently enjoying 3 offsite days in the Swiss mountains with the Zurich team and is on a high energy level!
