Category: Olympics
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Canada managed to win 18 total medals in the 2012 Olympics, while only tallying one gold medal. Previously, I proposed the question, has anyone ever won more medals than this with fewer golds? The answer, shockingly is yes. In 1952, Germany managed to win 24 total medals and exactly ZERO golds (7 Silver and 17…
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Canada is incredible. They somehow managed to win 18 total medal and only 1 gold. Amazing. How is it possible to be so consistently nearly the best? Has anyone ever won more medals with fewer golds? Cheers.
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Canada loves winning bronze medals….
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Cheers.
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I read this story about some badminton players that were thrown out of the Olympics for intentionally losing a match. In the words of Deadspin: The Chinese team of Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang and South Koreans Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na played a farce of a match in which players served into the net on purpose…
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Cheers.
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First off, for the R nerds out there, (If you don’t care about R, skip to the next paragraph) I’m quickly becoming a huge fan of ggplot2. Below is an example of combining a facet grid with pie charts using polar coordinates. Pretty cool. (I know most graphics people hate pie charts, but I think…
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So, last Monday I posted some Olympics boxplots, and then I left for the week to go golfing with my father (We play 7 rounds in 4 days, you take your best score on each hole, add them up and declare a winner. I won 66-68 this year. Pops now leads the all-time series 3-2). When…
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[7/23/2012 Addition: I’ve updated these plots using ggplot2 to look nicer. They can be found here.] Recently, I saw this pretty cool chart at the Washington Post (I originally saw the chart at this wonderful blog here) about the ages of olympians from the past three olympics. I commented to myself that I thought it would be…
Stats in the Wild 