Facebook's World Cup Data

Take a moment to check out this cool interactive look at Facebook status update data during this year's World Cup, courtesy of the New York Times. (Hat tip Shel.) I love when people find innovative ways to make large amounts of information digestible. A couple of takeaways:

• The little graphs for each player are really neat. You can tell exactly what time Landon Donovan scored for the US against Algeria on 6/23.
  
• Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is featured significantly throughout the tournament--he's #1 as late as July 9--even though he did virtually nothing during the Cup.
• Very few African players cracked the top spots in any given day. Probably due to the relative lack of Internet access penetration in Africa.