fannykassapian/olympic_games_viz

Visualization of historical data about the Olympic Games

Visualization of a 120 years of Olympic history

1. Source

This data is available on Kaggle. It was scraped from sports-reference.com by Randi Griffin. It is a consolidation of the research work of olympstats.com.

2. Existing analysis & uses

A thorough analysis of the data in R is available here. It also inspired a web app.

3. Purpose

The purpose of this notebook is to explore the data and produce some visualizations that give some insight about the history of the Olympic Games.

More specifically, it explores the share of women athletes, the number of medals won per country, the representation of each country (and the impact of historical events), the participation of Individual Olympic Athletes, and the popularity of sports in each country.