[OC] – medal data and country labels from BBC. Population data from Wikipedia. Plotted in Python.
I was wondering about this yesterday. Where’s Canada?
Chart 3 cuts off a few pretty big data points.
r/dataisbeautiful has become r/hereisabasicchart
Probably better to have used log scales.
Remember the name of this sub. This is not beautiful at all
This is why log exists, my lord
Per Capita for the olympics does not work, there is no linear relationship between population & total medals.
The primary purpose of per capita is comparing system, or performance of different size populations on a given metric, and results will imply that one system is superior, however, this works with models that do scale with population.
If Austrailia adds 10x more people, they will not get 10x more medals. There is also a cap on athletes sent per country, and that cap is not scaled by population.
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[OC] – medal data and country labels from BBC. Population data from Wikipedia. Plotted in Python.
I was wondering about this yesterday. Where’s Canada?
Chart 3 cuts off a few pretty big data points.
r/dataisbeautiful has become r/hereisabasicchart
Probably better to have used log scales.
Remember the name of this sub. This is not beautiful at all
This is why log exists, my lord
Per Capita for the olympics does not work, there is no linear relationship between population & total medals.
The primary purpose of per capita is comparing system, or performance of different size populations on a given metric, and results will imply that one system is superior, however, this works with models that do scale with population.
If Austrailia adds 10x more people, they will not get 10x more medals. There is also a cap on athletes sent per country, and that cap is not scaled by population.