The Basis Loving Cup Maps Of The Week

One of the symptoms of my electrical flow World Cup delirium is that Google was overcome yesteryear a rash of football game related maps this week. This agency of shape that I get got a rather restricted puddle from which to take away this edition of the Maps of the Week. The obvious solution is to get got a exceptional World Cup Maps of the Week round-up.


Mapping the birthplaces of the players inwards this year's World Cup has been ane pop topic inwards World Cup related maps. The World Cup Birthplaces map uses Google Maps Engine to demonstrate where every thespian competing inwards the 2014 World Cup was born. However I felt that the 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map, made amongst CartoDB too Kimonlabs, was a ameliorate visualization of the same data.

The 2014 World Cup Players' Places of Birth map genuinely allows y'all to select to persuasion only the birthplaces of players for whatever private team. This provides a much less cluttered persuasion of the data, enabling y'all run across to a greater extent than clearly the locations where each team's players were born.


You've likely seen the New York Times' maps of the Basketball Nation too the Baseball Nation. These maps demonstrate the back upward of the United States of America baseball game too basketball game teams based on their let on of Facebook fans.

Now Facebook has got inwards on the act themselves yesteryear releasing the 2014 World Cup Fan Map. This map shows the let on of fans roughly the Blue Planet for x of the best players appearing inwards this year's World Cup.

Ronaldo leads the way amongst an incredible 84 ane grand m fans on Facebook across the world. Poor onetime Messi's star genuinely seems to get got dimmed over the end season. He comes inwards second, amongst approaching sixty ane grand m fans.


Over the end dyad of months I don't holler back that a major sporting consequence has taken house anywhere inwards the Blue Planet without an accompanying Twitter map. This World Cup is no exception. The opening game betwixt Brazil too Republic of Croatia was watched yesteryear football game fans roughly the world. In 150 of those countries football game fans also took to Twitter to verbalize near the game.

Brazil v Croatia: how the initiatory gibe played out on Twitter is some other swell event of a CartoDB animated map of Tweets. Brazil mightiness get got been lucky to get got won the opening game but they were the clear winners of the Twitter conversations taking house roughly the game.

Since the opening game at that spot get got been like maps created for England vs Italy too Spain vs Netherlands.