The Times — World Cup

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Dean McNamee recently did a one week project conducted for The Times in London, focusing on visualizing data from the 2010 World Cup. Detailed data of plays and positions were aggregated across teams and players, with the goal of creating “at a glance” graphics, telling an instant story about the cup as a whole.

Custom software was written to analyze shots, passes, and tackles across players and teams, generating a few hundred heat-map graphics mapping these different events across the football pitch.

Four of the graphics were printed in Monday July 19th’s edition of The Times.

All of the graphics were published in the online edition of The Times, along with an interactive 3D visualization of tackles by team. The 3D visualization software was custom written in JavaScript and HTML5, creating an engaging and interactive experience across platforms and mobile devices such as the iPad.

A republished version of the 3D visualization is available here