FIFA World Cup

MicroProject Overview

The FIFA World Cup is a global football (soccer) competition contested by the senior men's national teams which occurs every 4 years. It is likely the most popular sporting event in the world, drawing billions of television viewers every tournament.

This dataset includes over 45,000 results of international football matches starting from the very first official match in 1872. The matches range from FIFA World Cup to regular friendly matches. The matches are strictly men's full internationals and the data does not include Olympic Games or matches where at least one of the teams was the nation's B-team, U-23 or a league select team. The full dataset, available on GitHub at https://github.com/martj42/international_results, is explored as part of this MicroProject!

MicroProject in Visual Studio Code
MicroProject in Visual Studio Code
Full dataset of over 44,000 matches
Full dataset of over 44,000 matches
Analysis of United States vs. Netherlands games
Analysis of United States vs. Netherlands games
Overall Win Percentage of the United States
Overall Win Percentage of the United States

First Time Doing a MicroProject?

Each MicroProject starts with a notebook that we provide to you to get started! You will need to configure a git repository to connect to our `microprojects` remote where we release the starter notebook.

Fetch the Initial Files

In your terminal, navigate to your GitHub repository and merge the initial files by running the following commands:

git fetch microprojects
git merge microprojects/microproject-fifa-world-cup --allow-unrelated-histories -m "Merging initial files"

Complete the Notebook

If the commands above were successful, you have merged in the initial files to start on the MicroProject.

  • Find the new microproject-fifa-world-cup folder.
  • Open microproject-fifa-world-cup.ipynb and complete the MicroProject!

Commit and Grade Your Notebook

Once you have finished your notebook, you must use the built-in GitHub Action to preform automated grading of your MicroProject notebook! You will need to commit your work and then manually run the GitHub Action.

Commit Your Work

To commit your notebook, run the standard git commands in your terminal:

git add -u
git commit -m "microproject completed"
git push

Grade Your Notebook

To grade your notebook, you will need to visit your GitHub repository in your browser.

  • Visit your GitHub repository in your browser
  • Click on the "Actions" tab
  • Under "Workflows", find the workflow for this microproject
  • Click the "Run Workflow" in the blue box, and then the green "Run Workflow"
  • After about 10 seconds, you should see a new job that has started running
    • You can click on the job to watch it run in real-time
    • It will take ~1 minute to run and grade
  • Once the running is complete, the autograding summary will be available!