Visualizing 120 years of Summer Olympics

This data visualization project was completed by Zihui (Chris) Fang and Hongtao Hao, with Equal Contribution, as the term paper for Professor Yong-Yeol Ahn‘s Data Visualization course in 2019 Fall.

Here is our study in PDF, and here is the tex source code for the PDF.

Summary

From the first modern Olympics in 1896 to Rio 2016, the Summer Olympic Games has been through 120 years. This study analyzed the historical data about the Olympics and tried to answer four questions, i.e.,

Results showed that both total number of athletes and the rate of female participation have been increasing in the past 120 years. Also, there seems to exist a home-field advantage. Third, medal efficiency is highly correlated with participating country or region’s economic development. Finally, athletics, gymnastics, and swimming have the highest number of athletes.

Unique Contributions

Based on the above discussions of the previous visualizations on the topics we are addressing, our contributions are:

Workflow

See olymvis-data for more details.

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