I don’t know if I’d call it “beautiful”, but i actually really like the visualization of the USA flag in this presentation.
This is pretty cool but the pattern kind of hurts my eyes. I feel as though having a shade and showing other nations as well could have been interesting. You mention 2nd place and 1st but looking at it. It’s hard to tell how much of a difference there is. Oh that’s not second it’s just great britain…
I have no idea how to interpret what I’m looking at here…
Does ‘Athletics’ hand out medals like candy? Obviously it’s a lot more about individual talent in those events to highlight human performance. Hear me out….say if a team of 6 for a sport, volleyball for example, wins the gold, it should count as 6 medals since it took 6 great human performances to achieve it!
If we can be so dominant in the Olympics due to our funding and resources, why can’t we have universal healthcare and guarantee housing and warm meals for all of our citizens?
This is beautiful. There are so many dimensions of interest packed into your charts, and they’re fun to dig into, and fairly obvious how to interpret, and the use of the US flag is appealing without making the data harder to read.
Looks nice but it’s confusing
Hmm yes, the lines have lines. And that line is somewhere, very interesting indeed. Ah quite the curve on that one yes. Very good.
(What am I looking at??)
Worst visualizations I’ve ever seen, looks like you stole this from a website
The U.S. just absolutely dominating in shootings per usual 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This wins the gold medal for least readable graphic.
Neat. The interactive version is a bit easier to work with. I get the use of the flag motif, but it makes it a little less intuitive. We (US) need to up our game in canoeing.
very cool.
But I might suggest removing the navy blue from the US strip. It makes it look like it has two countries when its just one. I know it is meant to mimic the US flag but beyond that it doesn’t add much.
The usa flag makes it look like 13 separate sections, maybe a strong outline around each flag?
How the hell are we beating america in tennis? We’ve had 2 good players in the last 80 years
How does the Soviet Union keep getting medals? On some graphs their medal count is going up despite having been dissolved decades ago.
Why is Great Britain’s place showed on every graphic
Looks like panning for gold never went away, the USA still seem to be able to get it out of any swimming pool.
It’s interesting, but I wonder what it would look like if it took the country’s population into account. I know in the last Olympics San Marino were first. But over the total course of the Olympics might be interesting to.
Took me a sec, but once I got it, I got it.
nice chart! while i can see it being visually confusing that the US flag stripes and other ribbons are basically the same motif, i think it’s a fun experiment! and i think even more effective from a distance or zoomed out!
it could be interesting to try subtle varied shades, drop shadows, gradient fills, or some hierarchy distinguishing all the “other” countries without being too overwhelming. *maybe* if done right, this could also lessen the us stripe issue that ppl are talking about here. then we could also compare the shapes of stripes, since the flat grey stripes get clumped together, etc.
but also it’s rly interesting that all the charts have same size, but span different timelines and what it would look like if the charts were scaled for “time” as well. storytelling-wise, maybe part of the history of US “dominance” is also when they got into the sport relative to other countries, when the sport originated, etc. and thats certainly a large project even tho it’s related so that’s just to say this is a cool idea!
ofc it depends on context, i dont agree w other comments that every chart needs to be as readable as possible for anyone who possibly wants to read it—maybe if this were communicating important public safety info…
I feel like the more effort put in, the more confusing infographs become
Field Hockey, Canoeing, and Judo are missing lines
Data IS beautiful. This? Not so much.
Isn’t this kind of bad considering Great Britain (66m) has such a smaller population than the US (333m) ?
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This visualization was built using Tableau with data from Kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/piterfm/olympic-games-medals-19862018?select=olympic_results.csv). The interactive viz allows you to view by Medal Type (Gold, Silver, Bronze, or Total) and to compare the U.S. to different countries. Here is the link to the interactive viz https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/brian.moore7221/viz/USATheSummerGames/USATheSummerGames
I don’t know if I’d call it “beautiful”, but i actually really like the visualization of the USA flag in this presentation.
This is pretty cool but the pattern kind of hurts my eyes. I feel as though having a shade and showing other nations as well could have been interesting. You mention 2nd place and 1st but looking at it. It’s hard to tell how much of a difference there is. Oh that’s not second it’s just great britain…
I have no idea how to interpret what I’m looking at here…
Does ‘Athletics’ hand out medals like candy? Obviously it’s a lot more about individual talent in those events to highlight human performance. Hear me out….say if a team of 6 for a sport, volleyball for example, wins the gold, it should count as 6 medals since it took 6 great human performances to achieve it!
If we can be so dominant in the Olympics due to our funding and resources, why can’t we have universal healthcare and guarantee housing and warm meals for all of our citizens?
This is beautiful. There are so many dimensions of interest packed into your charts, and they’re fun to dig into, and fairly obvious how to interpret, and the use of the US flag is appealing without making the data harder to read.
Looks nice but it’s confusing
Hmm yes, the lines have lines. And that line is somewhere, very interesting indeed. Ah quite the curve on that one yes. Very good.
(What am I looking at??)
Worst visualizations I’ve ever seen, looks like you stole this from a website
The U.S. just absolutely dominating in shootings per usual 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
This wins the gold medal for least readable graphic.
Neat. The interactive version is a bit easier to work with. I get the use of the flag motif, but it makes it a little less intuitive. We (US) need to up our game in canoeing.
very cool.
But I might suggest removing the navy blue from the US strip. It makes it look like it has two countries when its just one. I know it is meant to mimic the US flag but beyond that it doesn’t add much.
The usa flag makes it look like 13 separate sections, maybe a strong outline around each flag?
How the hell are we beating america in tennis? We’ve had 2 good players in the last 80 years
How does the Soviet Union keep getting medals? On some graphs their medal count is going up despite having been dissolved decades ago.
Why is Great Britain’s place showed on every graphic
Looks like panning for gold never went away, the USA still seem to be able to get it out of any swimming pool.
It’s interesting, but I wonder what it would look like if it took the country’s population into account. I know in the last Olympics San Marino were first. But over the total course of the Olympics might be interesting to.
Took me a sec, but once I got it, I got it.
nice chart! while i can see it being visually confusing that the US flag stripes and other ribbons are basically the same motif, i think it’s a fun experiment! and i think even more effective from a distance or zoomed out!
it could be interesting to try subtle varied shades, drop shadows, gradient fills, or some hierarchy distinguishing all the “other” countries without being too overwhelming. *maybe* if done right, this could also lessen the us stripe issue that ppl are talking about here. then we could also compare the shapes of stripes, since the flat grey stripes get clumped together, etc.
but also it’s rly interesting that all the charts have same size, but span different timelines and what it would look like if the charts were scaled for “time” as well. storytelling-wise, maybe part of the history of US “dominance” is also when they got into the sport relative to other countries, when the sport originated, etc. and thats certainly a large project even tho it’s related so that’s just to say this is a cool idea!
ofc it depends on context, i dont agree w other comments that every chart needs to be as readable as possible for anyone who possibly wants to read it—maybe if this were communicating important public safety info…
I feel like the more effort put in, the more confusing infographs become
Field Hockey, Canoeing, and Judo are missing lines
Data IS beautiful. This? Not so much.
Isn’t this kind of bad considering Great Britain (66m) has such a smaller population than the US (333m) ?