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Beijing 2008 Olympics: Medal Count by Country
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Chinese Olypmics Website (http://results.beijing2008....)
The Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics began with a many bangs, courtesy of
the thousands of drummers in the opening ceremony. Once competition
began, a tally of medals won seemed like an obvious data set for
Swivel. Since no-one else had embarked on this task, I decided to take
it on myself. I included the result in a
blog post about Swivel
At first I was typing in the data, but scanning the medal table on the
Official
Olympics site quickly became a challenge. It was time for an
automated solution, so I whipped up a little perl script to scrape the
data and I now update the data fairly regularly (not quite real time
though).
I am pleased to say that this chart has been something of a runaway
success in terms of visitors: at last count views had passed 9500 in
two weeks. I attribute this, in part, to Olympics fever but I am
sure that it has also been helped by being featured on the popular "Random
Thoughts" blog.
There is also an overal medal tally
chart based on the same data.
I have now also written
about medal counts adjusted for population or gross domestic
product (GDP).
—seancarmody
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