Saturday, June 27, 2020

The Map Of Football Game Fandom


Earlier this twelvemonth the New York Times started a novel tendency inwards digital maps when it released its Map of the Baseball Nation. The map divided the USA into novel regions based on the release of Facebook 'likes' held yesteryear each baseball game squad inwards the country.

The map proved in addition to then pop that the New York Times speedily followed upward that map by Mapping the Basketball Nation. It has forthwith too released a map of college football game fandom.


The College Football Fan Map divides the USA into novel regions based on the Facebook 'likes' of college football game teams. Not content alongside splitting the U.S. upward into college football game fan regions the Times has too created a map of The Places inwards America Where College Football Means the Most.

This novel map is a heat-map of where college football game is close pop inwards America. By selecting a county on the map y'all tin dismiss persuasion what per centum of the county's residents are Facebook fans of  a college football game team.


What started inwards the New York Times has forthwith been picked upward yesteryear other newspapers to a greater extent than or less the world. Last calendar week Dutch website Tubantia released a map of soccer fandom inwards the Netherlands. Voetbalkaart is a map of the Netherlands inwards which each neighborhood has been colored based on the release of registered flavor ticket holders in that location are for Dutch football game teams.

The color of each neighborhood on the map agency that in that location are to a greater extent than flavor ticket holders for that squad inwards the neighborhood than for whatever of their rivals. The map for the close business office uses the recognizable colors of the Dutch football game teams, nevertheless the intensity of the colors is determined yesteryear the release of flavor ticket holders inwards the neighborhood.


Swiss paper Tages Anzeiger has created a similar mapped visualization showing the geography of football game back upward inwards Switzerland. Die Hochburgen der Schweizer Fussballfans colors the map based on the abode addresses of flavor ticket holders of Swiss football game teams. The color indicates the dominant gild inwards each neighborhood. The intensity of the color indicates the release of fans buying flavor tickets inwards the area.

It is too possible to conduct private teams from a drop-down carte to persuasion the degree of each team's back upward throughout the country.


The Berliner Morgenpost has too created a map of football game fandom inwards Germany. Using information obtained from German linguistic communication football game clubs the paper has produced a map showing where the fans of each squad live.

The Fußballkarte shows the release of registered members for each gild inwards each German linguistic communication neighborhood. Each neighborhood on the map is colored to present the gild alongside the close registered members inwards that neighborhood. If y'all mouse-over a neighborhood y'all tin dismiss detect out the exact release of fans each gild has inwards that area.

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