How much have Americans warmed to soccer since the previous World Cup? Quite a lot, you might guess, from the media’s extensive coverage of the World Cup (including this site’s). Some media reports about growing U.S. interest in soccer indicate the same. But are they borne out by the data? I looked at indicators of American soccer […]
The United States kicks off its 2014 World Cup campaign on Monday against Ghana, the team that eliminated the Stars and Stripes from the 2010 tournament in the round of 16. That’s the must-watch game in the U.S. But for most of the rest of the world, it’s Germany versus Portugal. See our World Cup interactive for the […]
The United States kicks off its 2014 World Cup campaign on Monday against Ghana, the team that eliminated the Stars and Stripes from the 2010 tournament in the round of 16. That’s the must-watch game in the U.S. But for most of the rest of the world, it’s Germany versus Portugal. See our World Cup interactive for the […]
This is Ctrl + ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet (be prepared, they’re mostly soccer-related). ICYMI: FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup Predictions It’s Brazil’s World Cup to Lose FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP? The Eric […]
This is Ctrl + ←, our weekly data journalism roundup. You’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet (be prepared, they’re mostly soccer-related). ICYMI: FiveThirtyEight’s World Cup Predictions It’s Brazil’s World Cup to Lose FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP? The Eric […]
