The 2010 World Cup is being monitored by fans not only on television and the web, but also through some very interesting dashboards and data visualizations.
iDashboards has their 2010 World Cup Tournament Dashboard.
From their press release:
These dashboards monitor the matches played by each team, match scores and points earned by each team in easy-to-view charts and graphs which are updated after each game. Teams compete to make it past the Group Stage and be among the top 16 teams. From the Round of 16, users can view at-a-glance information on team standings and follow who wins the title. There is also an interactive customized map of South Africa where users can roll-over a stadium to see the matches being played there.
Here’s a look at the stadium dashboard:
The NY Times has the following interactive data visualization: NY Times World Cup Match Tracker
Check out the wonderful navigation of this Calendar World Cup:
The FIFA World Cup Live Tracker even has crowd noises and other sound effects.
And the UK newspaper The Guardian has this World Cup 2010 Twitter replay:
What I find sadly interesting about most of these is how cluttered and un-usable they are. Are they supposed to be useful, or are they just different people’s exercise in dashboard building using all the recent gimmicks?
i’m based in south africa. Who can i contact to build a dashboard for our company?
Gordon
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