Chunky Chains: Graph Drawings on Small Screens

Case Study: Player Appearances at FIFA World Cups

For our case study, we created bipartite graphs of football players and FIFA World Cups where an edge denotes the appearance of a player in the starting squad of any game at the respective World Cup.1

Drawing style Germany men’s national team United States women’s national team
Chunky Chains show show
Two-track (dot) show show
Force-direced (neato) show show
Matrix representation see paper see paper

  1. We use the data from [Fjelstul, Joshua C. “The Fjelstul World Cup Database v.1.2.0.” 2023]. ↩