Great visualization of olympic medals won by year

Re:Great visualization of olympic medals won by year by markbao on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @04:46PM (#267860)

It would be even more awesome if each circle had a sub-circle to represent gold medals. For example, it's not immediately clear, for instance in 2004 Athens, that US had 102 medals, 36 golds, but although China only had 63 medals it had 32 golds.

Still, very cool. Love seeing the number of medals against time as well.

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Re:Great visualization of olympic medals won by year by misterbwong on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @06:31PM (#267970)

I agree. I wanted to see something like this also. Maybe even scaling the size of the bubble using a point system for type of medal.

Hypothetical example, Gold medal = 3pts, Silver = 2pts, Bronze = 1pt. Total the # of points and scale chart accordingly.

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Re:Great visualization of olympic medals won by year by ardit33 on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @12:33AM (#268224)

well, in many sports, the difference between a gold medalist, and silver one tend to be really minor. So, ability wise, a silver medalist is doing pretty well, and can consider to be a top athlete of the world in that given discipline.

So, maybe a 10 points for a gold, 8, for silver, and 6 for bronze might make more sense.

Formula One used to have this scoring mechanism (which I thought was fair), first 10, second place 8, third 6, then 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Usually in a car race there are about 20-22 cars, so only the first 8 cars would get any points.

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