Well, the Olympics have come to an end in PyeongChang. The US got a respectable 23 medals, but nowhere near the prior record of 37 the US delegation hit in Vancouver. Norway dominated the Games, beating that record this year with 39 medals, and doing so with a delegation less than half the size of …
Over the last few years a lot of people have started looking at new ways of visualizing the Olympics (myself included, of course), but almost everywhere you look will still show a standard medal table to try to sum up how everyone is doing in the Olympics. Historically, most tables would be sorted by Total …
Continue reading One Week In – Who’s Really Winning the Olympics?
While I was watching the Figure Skating events a few days ago, I noticed something that made my heart jump. Not the excellent skating, though there was some of that - but those snowflakes! They show up across most of the event venues I've seen so far. I wouldn't really blame you if you hadn't …
Continue reading Encoded Art – The Use of the Korean Alphabet in the Games’ Graphic Design
For the last several years that I've been gathering data on the Olympics, I've kept up economic indicators - it just seems somewhat intuitive that countries with a better economic foundation and resources would have better ability to train and compete in the Olympics. However, every time I've run the numbers, there just really don't …
Continue reading Winter v. Summer – Dollar Dollar Bills Y’all
Much more to look at here regarding gender equality at the Olympics - I hope to be able to get to medals by gender - or at least which gender did better with their opportunity by country, but also at potential medals by gender. That'll be a hard number to get to, but I'm going …
The Olympics are the greatest sporting event on Earth. And I love beautiful data. So, every time the Olympics roll around, I take the opportunity to combine the two. New data on the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics are coming soon, but for now, take a look back at my sum up of the 2016 Rio Olympics …
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