Looking for FIFA World cup 2018 Tracker? Click here.
Today FIFA World-cup 2010 is beginning. For the next 30 days or so, no matter where you go, you are bound to hear about soccer, world cup, teams, points, goals and what not.
As a tribute to this beautiful and lovely sport, I want to showcase some really awesome excel spreadsheets that are designed to track FIFA Worldcup 2010. Follow the links and Enjoy.
Most Comprehensive and Awesomest FIFA Worldcup Tracker – by Graham
This is by far one of the most comprehensive and slickest Excel files on footbal that I have seen. The workbook can play national anthems of teams, show scores from past finals, has team ranks, automated scoring and much more. Just download and play with it. You are going to love it even if you are not a sucker for soccer.
FIFA Worldcup tracker from Excely – 2018
This one page spreadsheet can easily provide team points and help you track everything you want in one place.
Comprehensive World cup Tracker with Live Scores
This tracker can update scores from web. Very useful if you want to know where teams stand at any point. Also, this is very comprehensive and provides extensive analysis of matches, goals, shots etc.
A FIFA Worldcup Tracker from Microsoft
Another football world cup tracker / planner sheet with an added twist of ability to filter the team you want. Interesting stuff.
Worldcup Planner with team points
This is a straight forward tracker with option to track team points and calculate group standings. It uses macros, so enable them to get it work.
An Excel Tracker from Our Reader – Alan
Alan from Computer Gaga shares this excel tracker using which you can find group level standings, track scores and do so much more.
Well designed Excel Tracker and Planner
Another very well designed Excel based football tracker / planner. It doesn’t seem like an excel file, but more like a web page. Check it out.
One Page FIFA 2010 World cup Tracker from ExcelTemplate.net
One page tracker to keep track of scores and more.
Beautiful Flash based FIFA 2010 Calendar [non-excel]
![Beautiful Flash based FIFA 2010 Calendar [non-excel]](https://chandoo.org/img/2010/fifa-2010-planner-tracker-sheet-10.png){kind=tracking}
Ok, this is not an excel based thing, but it is very beautiful and easy to use. It is a flash based calendar with clear views of matches and scores by date, group, country.
FIFA Worldcup Excel Files on Chandoo.org
I have posted 2 workbooks related to FIFA worldcup on Chandoo.org. Check them out too,
- Looking for FIFA World cup 2018 Tracker? Click here.
- Balls used in FIFA Worldcup finals since 1930 – An Excel Chart
- FIFA Football Betting Sheet / Office Pool Template
Do you know any more excel based trackers / planners / wall charts for FIFA Worldcup 2010?
Please share using comments. I would love to see more excel files and learn from them.
Happy weekend 🙂
18 Responses to “Best Charts to Compare Actual Values with Targets – What is your take?”
Great post. I can't vote, though, because the answer I want to put down is "it depends". As with all visualisations, you've got to take into account your audience, your purpose, technical skills, where it will be viewed, etc.
I'm with Andy: It depends. Some I would use, some I might use, some I won't touch with a barge pole.
Naturally I have comments 🙂
The dial gauge, though familiar, is less easy to read than a linear type of chart (thermometer or bullet). It's really no better than the traffic lights, because all it can really tell you is which category the point falls in: red, yellow, or green.
By the same token, pie charts are so familiar, people don't know they can't read them. Remember how long it takes kids to learn to read an analog clock?
Bullet charts don't show trends.
With any of the charts that have a filled component and a marker or ine component, it makes more sense to use the filled component (area/ column) for target, and the lines or markers for actual.
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I voted for #6 even though I agree with the other comments that it depends.
The majority of the votes are for the #2, thermometer chart. I still have yet to understand what happens when you are above plan/goal, which was brought up in yesterday's post.
Also, I agree with Jon in that it would be better to flip the series and make the filled part the target or goal and the line or marker the actual.
I am also a fan of using text when appropriate if the data is among other metrics in a type of dashboard. Calling it out by saying actual and % achievement is a good option.
Another "it depends" vote. Are you just looking at one or are you comparing a number of targets with actuals? You didn't include a text box. The problem with sentences is that they can get lost in a page of gray text. A text box can call attention to the numbers and line them up effectively.
I'm with Jon: "Some I would use, some I might use, some I won’t touch with a barge pole" and I'm surprised that some of your readers voted for the last group.
Jon says:
With any of the charts that have a filled component and a marker or line component, it makes more sense to use the filled component (area/ column) for target, and the lines or markers for actual.
Why does this make more sense? I like 6 the way it is, although I would use a heavy dash for the plan/target marker.
"It depends" is also my take. What I usually try to drill into my clients dashboard design is the fu ndamental difference between spot results (am I on target for this month) and long term trends.. I always try to create 3 different set of graphs to represent real perormance:
- spot results vs objectives
- cumulative results vs objectives
- long-term trend (moving average) mostly) to see where we're going
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Jon says:
With any of the charts that have a filled component and a marker or line component, it makes more sense to use the filled component (area/ column) for target, and the lines or markers for actual.
Why does this make more sense? I like 6 the way it is, although I would use a heavy dash for the plan/target marker.
I totally agree, Bob. I would normally favour a line for the target and a column for the actual, you can see quite easily then which columns break through the line, then.
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Thermometer charts: "Not appropriate when actual values exceed targets" - this is easily solved by making the "mercury" portion a different color from the border, then you can clearly see where the expected range ends and the actual values keep going.
People seem to knock gauges quite a bit in dashboarding, but trying to show comparison of realtime data between operating sites and targets for each site can easily be done with a bank of gauges that have the optimal operating points at 12 o'clock.
The human eye is great at pattern stripping, and any deviation of a gauge from the expected 12 position will quickly register with an operator and attract his attention. Using a colour background, or meter edge, will also indicate the sensitivity of a particular site.
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I am wondering how will the plotting work, for some of the targets which may have been achieved before time. E.g. for the month of Jul the target was 226 and the actual was 219. So the chart will show a deficit in meeting the target by 7 points but what if this 7 may have been completed earlier in month of June. So ideally it not a deficit.