Population-adjusted Olympic medal rankings
If the real measure of Olympic success is the number of medals won per capita, then this is the table we should be following. Australia is conspicuously absent at the moment, but that should be rectified soon if the Athens and Sydney performances are anything to go by.
Some more Olympic medal statistical goodness:
- Visualisation of population-adjusted performance from Athens (not weighted by medal-type)
- Athens medal performance weighted by GDP
- The beautiful NYT animated visualisation of medals won over time
Enjoy!
[...] if you ask me, you should not only weight medals by value, but also normalize according to population and GDP. [...]
August 24th, 2008 at 11:35 pm[...] if you ask me, you should not only weight medals by value, but also normalize according to population and GDP. [...]
August 31st, 2008 at 7:04 pm[...] if you ask me, you should not only weight medals by value, but also normalize according to population and GDP. [...]
September 5th, 2008 at 11:56 amHey there, I made an Olympics web-project for the masses where members of the workforce on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk website were hired to “perform” Olympic events, resulting in a competition of YouTube videos. We all voted on the best videos on the blog, http://mechanicalolympics.org. Cheers.
October 12th, 2008 at 4:47 am