Show HN: Visualizing the group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Show HN: Visualizing the group stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup(fifaworldcup.jsplumbtoolkit.com)

4 points by sporritt 3 years ago | 2 comments

This is a visualization we created for a blog post back in 2018 and decided to resurrect for 2022.

You can see at a glance a bunch of information about the progress of each group - the result of each match that has been played, the status of each team, and how many matches have been played.

I like to think this would get a good data-ink score from Edward Tufte.

nicolaskruchten 3 years ago |

I like it!

Do the positions of the teams in the squares mean anything? It might be nice to have the teams laid out with two on top (rotated 45 degrees) with the top two being the current point leaders?

sporritt 3 years ago | |

That's a good idea, because no, currently only the node's border color indicates rank, not their position. I could get an even denser data-ink ratio with this...