The 2022 FIFA World Cup – Domo’s take a look at the historical past of the event

The Soccer World Cup (or Soccer World Cup if you happen to’re a North American fan) is upon us, kicking off for the 22^nd time in slightly below every week hosted by the nation of Qatar. Of specific observe is England vs United States on Friday the twenty fifth for just a little EMEA workplace vs HQ rivalry.

It’s admittedly an uncommon time for the world cup to start, which usually takes place in Could, June or July, nevertheless, as a result of excessive temperatures of the Qatari Summer season it is going to happen through the cooler months of November & December for the primary time within the event’s historical past.

To have fun the event and to maintain monitor of what occurs because the event progresses, we’ve put collectively a collection of dashboards which you will discover under.

There’s masses to dig in to and discover however earlier than you do there are some things to notice:

• When the 2022 World Cup begins in November, our datasets will replace with new information on the finish of every match day.
• Being a knowledge firm, and to indicate the ability of Domo, we once more selected to supply all information from publicly accessible websites utilizing Jupyter Notebooks and Lovely Soup.
• As we publicly sourced the information, there could also be some errors with it. For those who discover one, be happy to attain out to us and we will make corrections

Some datapoints I discovered attention-grabbing whereas taking part in round with the information is:

• In 21 world cups there have solely been 8 completely different nations to win
• Brazil has each probably the most World Cup wins (5) and match wins (73) since 1930. what’s attention-grabbing is that Italy trails in second with 4 World Cup wins and 45 match wins, however didn’t truly qualify for the event this yr

We’re additionally excited to current the ‘Ask me Something’ web page powered by a Pure Language Question (NLQ) app from our mates at Pramana. We’ll elaborate on that a part of our Dashboard in a submit subsequent week.

With no additional ado, our World Cup App: