In the last post, I attempted to use Edward Tufte's concept of deteriorating parallel to reimagine the World Cup 2022 Final 16. Moving backwards, I will try to use Tufte's concept of parallelism to visualise the World Cup Final 16. This is to allow comparison of teams' ranking based on their performance at the World Cup. If you have not read it, we can see how Tufte defines parallelism from a page of Visual Explanations above.
Inspired by the demonstration, I have decided to emulate it using the World Cup 2022 Final 16 below:
As you may have noticed, the rank has become continuous in labelling as compared to the distinct values in the deteriorating parallel version. This change is to facilitate the comparison in the ranking of teams before and after the World Cup. This additional information helps users to see how the World Cup shift the rankings of the teams, on top of highlighting how wide the gaps are between the teams before the World Cup and how much the gaps have closed after the World Cup.
All in all, parallelism as a concept is actually useful and possibly underuse in the world of data viz. The use as shown can be done even in subjects like single elimination brackets. The abundance of info in a visual using parallelism cannot be overstated.