Great visualization of olympic medals won by year

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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