Fifa WC 2022 Qatar Data Analysis(EDA)

What is Exploratory Data Analysis?

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is a technique used to gain insights and understanding from a given dataset. It is an approach for analyzing and summarizing data that allows analysts to identify patterns, trends, and relationships within the data. EDA is typically the first step in the data analysis process and is an iterative process involving visualizing and summarizing the data in various ways.

The main goal of EDA is to develop a deeper understanding of the data and identify any potential issues or limitations. This process allows analysts to clean and prepare the data for further analysis, and can also reveal insights that can guide the analysis to move in a proper direction.

One of the key tools used in EDA is visualization. Visualizing data in various ways can reveal patterns and relationships that may not be immediately apparent when looking at raw data.
Common visualizations used in EDA include:

1. Histograms
2. Scatter plots
3. Box Plots
4. Bar Charts
5. Line Charts
6. Pie Chart or Donut Chart
7. Bubble Charts
   These visualizations can be used to identify outliers, patterns, and trends in the data, and can also be used to compare different subsets of the data.

Another vital aspect of EDA is summarizing the data using statistical measures such as mean, median, and standard deviation and plotting the Correlation Matrix. These measures can be used to understand the distribution of the data and identify any potential outliers.

EDA can also include data cleaning and preprocessing, which is the process of identifying and correcting errors or inconsistencies in the data. This can consist of handling missing data, removing outliers, or transforming variables to make the data more suitable for analysis.

Overall, EDA is a crucial step in the data analysis process, as it allows analysts to gain a deeper understanding of the data and identify any potential issues or limitations before proceeding with more advanced analysis. It also can also be a great way to find insights that can guide further analysis.

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup is an international soccer tournament contested by the men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. The tournament has been held every four years since 1930, except in 1942 and 1946, due to World War II.

FIFA World Cup 2022

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Middle East and the first in November and December instead of the traditional June and July. The tournament is planned to be played in 8 venues across 5 host cities in the country.

This edition of the World Cup will feature 32 teams, an increase of 16 teams compared to the previous editions. Also, this tournament going to be the first to play in the 48-team format, which was confirmed in 2017 by the FIFA council.

About the data analysis project:

This is an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) project which does the analysis of the data from FIFA WC 2022 held in Qatar. You can follow the project on Kaggle and GitHub.

In this project, for data scrapping, we have used beautifulsoup (bs4) and requests. For EDA we have used python packages like Numpy, and Pandas, and data visualization packages such as Matplotlib and Plotly.

Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/code/shrikrishnaparab/fifa-wc-2022-qatar-data-analysis-eda

GitHub: https://github.com/shreeparab1890/Fifa-WC-2022-Qatar-Data-Analysis-EDA

About Data Collection Technique and Data Columns:

The technique used for data collection is web scrapping and data is compiled in a CSV file. The CSV file consists of 59 Columns and has data from all 64 matches played in the world cup 2022. The columns can be divided into:

Basic Match details:

• match_no
• day_of_week
• date
• hour
• venue
• referee
• group
• 1 (Team 1)
• 2 (Team 2)
• attendance

Other Details: (which are used in the EDA)

• 1_xg
• 2_xg
• 1_poss (Team 1 Possesion)
• 2_poss (Team 2 Possesion)
• 1_goals (Team 1 Goal Scored)
• 2_goals (Team 2 Goal Scored)
• score (Fianl Scored of the match)
• 1_yellow_cards (Team 1 Yellow Cards)
• 2_yellow_cards (Team 2 Yellow Cards)
• 1_red_cards (Team 1 Red Cards)
• 2_red_cards (Team 2 Red Cards)
• 1_passes (Team 1 Passes)
• 2_passes (Team 2 Passes)
• 1_passes_compeletd (Team 1 Passes completed)
• 2_passes_compeletd (Team 2 Passes completed)
• 1_own_goal (Own Goal by Team 1)
• 2_own_goal (Own Goal by Team 2)

For Analysis purposes we have done feature engineering on the above CSV file to create new columns(Features):

1. Total Match Goals ( we have added 1_goals and 2_goals)
2. Pass Acuracy ( (1_passes / 1_passes_compeletd)*100)

The Dataset(CSV) does not have any null values and has no duplicate entries.

EDA (Data Analysis Results):

Please Go through the kaggle project for more in detail analysis, below are some key Details.

Finalist:

ARGENTINA and FRANCE

WC Winner:

ARGENTINA

Teams:

Total Teams Played: 32

Teams:

ARGENTINA, CROATIA, NETHERLANDS, ENGLAND, FRANCE, JAPAN, BRAZIL, PORTUGAL, MOROCCO, TUNISIA, SPAIN, QATAR, POLAND, KOREA REPUBLIC, WALES, BELGIUM, CAMEROON, GHANA, URUGUAY, UNITED STATES, SWITZERLAND, SERBIA, SENEGAL, IRAN, CANADA, COSTA RICA, DENMARK, ECUADOR, GERMANY, MEXICO, AUSTRALIA, SAUDI ARABIA

Total Venues:8

Venues:

Lusail Iconic Stadium, Al Bayt Stadium, Khalifa International Stadium, Education City Stadium, Al Thumama Stadium, Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Stadium 974, Al Janoub Stadium

Venues according to the matches played:

 Lusail Iconic Stadium            10
 Al Bayt Stadium                   9
 Khalifa International Stadium     8
 Al Thumama Stadium                8
 Education City Stadium            8
 Ahmed bin Ali Stadium             7
 Stadium 974                       7
 Al Janoub Stadium                 7

Venues according to the attendance:

 Lusail Iconic Stadium            874607
 Al Bayt Stadium                  601149
 Khalifa International Stadium    355552
 Education City Stadium           349114
 Al Thumama Stadium               337685
 Ahmed bin Ali Stadium            299517
 Stadium 974                      297854
 Al Janoub Stadium                288774

Highest Goal Scoring Team:

France: scored 16 Goals

Team with the Highest pass accuracy:

ARGENTINA

Team with the Highest possession:

SPAIN: 75.75%

Team with Max Yellow Cards:

ARGENTINA: 16 cards

Teams with Red Cards:

CAMEROON, MOROCCO, WALES: 1 each

Teams with own goals:

ARGENTINA, MOROCCO: 1 each

Top 2 Goal Scorer of WC 2022:

Kylian Mbappe 8 Goals
Lionel Messi 7 Goals