Olympic Medal Count Visualization by the NY Times

Posted in Dashboards | Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Trackback

Dashboard Topic: Visualizing the Data behind the 2008 Olympic Medal Count.

Data visualizations from the New York Times are usually visually stunning and well thought out. This fine example is no exception. The animated nature of these flash-based dashboards and data visualization graphics allow for intuitive analysis, especially for understanding trends over long periods of time.

Visit the Olympics Medal Count Map or watch the Dashboard Spy video below.

The results of the 2008 summer games being held in Beijing, China are displayed along with their historical context. Sliders allow back and forth visualization of the trends. Note in particular the swell and sudden disappearance of the Soviet medals in the 80’s. An interesting time in political history noticeable from the data in an interesting manner.

What do you think of this data visualization?

Tags: 2008 Olympic Medal Count, Olympics Medal Map, Data Visualization, New York Times


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    2 Comments

    1. james Says:

      Very nice widget.
      I love the interactive aspect of it. Also the visualization of any increase or decrease in performance for any given year is astonishing and very user friendly.

      You don’t have to be an analyst to decode the huge spreadsheet this data is derived from and this, my friend, is nothing short of awesome.

      I have found a nice widget that visualizes the medal tally from different perspectives:
      1: medal count per million dollar GDP
      2: medal count per million inhabitants

      In addition this widget can display the result for both total medal count and gold medal count.

      I hope you will find it useful:-)
      http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/48abc6bc903b61d0

      James

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