The World Cup isn’t just taking the world’s sports fans by storm, but seems to be engaging the worlds data visualization community en masse as well. South African based startup company ScoreGrid has a new webapp online that visualizes the various games of the World Cup.
Although its visualization has similar features as Adidas MatchTracker (annotated timeline with the graphical depiction overlaid on a virtual grass field), and NYTimes Goal (localized, but static, heat map), its originality might lie in the fact that it particularly focuses on the dynamics of the ball (instead of players), such as the ball's location over time, how long it was possessed by each side or how long it was present in each half.
via ScoreGrid: More Visualized Real-Time Football Cup Data Statistics – information aesthetics.
