EA Sports launched Fifa Earth, an incredible three-part real-time interactive data visualization based on their FIFA 10 soccer game. By allowing the game to upload its information to a global server, the application then tracks the number of people playing, wins, losses, draws and other information. The site also collects all of the tweets about FIFA (by searching for tags such as #fifa, #fussball, #soccer and the like) and displays them on a sexy image of the Earth-as-a-soccer-ball.When I visited the site today, there were over 40 million games played on the PlayStation ahd XBox networks alone all feeding data to the system. By the end of the year they expect over 2 billion!
Thanks, as always, infosthetics.
(I apologize for being so datavis heavy lately, I'll get back to the other subjects soon, I promise).
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