The Football World Cup (or Soccer World Cup if you’re a North American fan) is upon us, kicking off for the 22nd time in just under a week hosted by the nation of Qatar. Of particular note is England vs United States on Friday the 25th for a little EMEA office vs HQ rivalry. It’s admittedly an unusual time for the world cup to begin, which typically takes place in May, June or July, however, due to the extreme temperatures of the Qatari Summer it will take place during the cooler months of November & December for the first time in the tournament’s history. To celebrate the tournament and to keep track of what happens as the tournament progresses, we have put together a series of dashboards which you can find below. There’s loads to dig in to and explore but before you do there are a few things to note: Some datapoints I found interesting while playing around with the data is: We’re also excited to present the ‘Ask me Anything’ page powered by a Natural Language Query (NLQ) app from our friends at Pramana. We will elaborate on that part of our Dashboard in a post next week. With no further ado, our World Cup App: