Olympics Dataviz

Data Sources

120 years of Olympic history: athletes and results, 271116 rows and 15 columns

  • ID – Unique number for each athlete
  • Name – Athlete’s name
  • Sex – M or F
  • Age – Integer
  • Height – In centimeters
  • Weight – In kilograms
  • Team – Team name
  • NOC – National Olympic Committee 3-letter code
  • Games – Year and season
  • Year – Integer
  • Season – Summer or Winter
  • City – Host city
  • Sport – Sport
  • Event – Event
  • Medal – Gold, Silver, Bronze, or NA

Olympic Summer & Winter Games, 1896-2022

More than 21,000 medals, 162,000 results, 74,000 athletes, 20,000 biographies, and 53 hosts. The data was created from Olympics.

olympic_athletes.csvpersonal information about athletes (name, short bio, etc.)
75904 rows × 7 columns :
athlete_url
athlete_full_name
games_participations
first_game
athlete_year_birth
athlete_medals
bio
olympic_medals.csvgeneral information on medalists (Athlete or Team)
21697 rows × 12 columns
discipline_title
slug_game
event_title
event_gender
medal_type
participant_type
participant_title
athlete_url
athlete_full_name
country_name
country_code
country_3_letter_code
olympic_hosts.csvhosts (year, city, country, etc)
52 rows x 7 columns :
game_slug
game_end_date
game_start_date
game_location
game_name
game_season
game_year
olympic_results.csvgeneral information on results (Athlete or Team)
162804 rows × 15 columns
discipline_title
event_title
slug_game
participant_type
medal_type
athletes
rank_equal
rank_position
country_name
country_code
country_3_letter_code
athlete_url
athlete_full_name
value_unit
value_type
olympic_results.pklgeneral information on results (Athlete or Team)

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Dataviz found on the web

  • Country teams
  • Top countries by number of medals ( map, color squares, stacked /bars, areas over time)
  • Country rank over time
  • Number of competing countries over time (line)
  • Team details (state of origin map, university bar, height/weight scatter)
  • country medals/gdp per cap over time (scatter+size)
  • Sports
  • Evolution of performance (line, scatter)
  • Number of disciplines by type over time (bar)
  • height by sport (box)
  • age/sex distribution by sport
  • Hosts
  • Host countries distribution (bar)
  • Host continent (pie)
  • country medals/gdp per cap over time (scatter+size)
  • budget over time (circle size), costs and revenues over time (bars)
  • map of venues
  • Individuals
  • google search by gender and sport (bar)
  • number of athletes over time (line + )
  • number of medals by age (bar)
  • number of male/female over time (lines, stacked bars)
  • medals per athlete by country (bar)

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