1. Where do players play?
There are a number of brilliant charts in this piece from Quartz, using Guardian data.
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2. History of the World Cup ball
Lovely interactive piece from The New York Times.
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3. The history of the Adidas World Cup ball in six seconds
Adidas earns its creative stripes with Vine.
4. Squad value
This graphic shows the squad values of each nation, including the value of the highest paid players.
The disparity between the value of certain nations’ squads doesn’t seem to have translated to performance, as minnows such as Costa Rica and the USA are still alive at time of writing.
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5. The 12th Man
This is an informative interactive infographic showing social media activity in several areas and data about each nation.
The tool shows most popular tweets and photographs, which give a good insight into how the World Cup has crossed over into other areas of culture.
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6. How much football does each nation play?
Via designer Thibaud Tissot. This image shows population, with registered and unregistered football players inset.
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7. The business of the World Cup
If you’re wondering just how much money FIFA stands to make, the following graphic will probably help to explain a lot of the political discourse concerning FIFA’s conduct right now.
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8. How the USA scored
More goodness from The New York Times with its visualisation of USA’s goals against Ghana.
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9. The history of World Cup final stadiums
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10. England’s performances at World Cups – a sad addendum (as an England fan)
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