New The European Loving Cup Lastly Map

Last calendar week I was impressed past times the Twitter FA Cup Final 2014 map. This CartoDB Torque powered map visualized the global Twitter mentions for the 2 competing teams before, during as well as later the English linguistic communication FA Cup Final. We similar a shot bring an fifty-fifty amend animated Twitter map of the European Cup lastly betwixt Real Madrid as well as Atlético Madrid.

Essentially the Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: #UCL final map follows the same approach equally the FA Cup Final map. It provides an animated oestrus map of Tweets made or then the the world mentioning either of the 2 teams, during the 120 minutes of the game. However the add-on of a uncomplicated time-line helps to brand this map far to a greater extent than engaging than the FA Cup Final map.

The time-line running along the bottom of the map highlights primal moments during the game (goals, yellowish cards & substitutions). This helps to contextualize the results shown on the map. Scroll the time-line to '21:26' as well as you lot tin laissez passer on the sack run into that the explosion of cherry-red on the map was caused past times Atlético Madrid's opening goal. Similarly if you lot scroll the time-line to '22:38' you lot tin laissez passer on the sack run into that Real Madrid's equalizer resulted inwards a huge explosion of Tweets mentioning the team.

The Real Madrid v Atlético Madrid: #UCL lastly map is a keen demonstration of CartoDB's Torque library. It shows how an animated map coupled alongside a uncomplicated time-line tin laissez passer on the sack render a really powerful tool for exploring really large information sets over time.

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