Monday, August 18, 2008

Olympics Medal Count Map


The Medal Count Map from the NYTimes.com show the total number of medals each country has won in every olympics since 1896.  Choose a year on the timeline to animate the graphic.  Rolling your mouse over a country will show the breakdown of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals and clicking will bring up a complete list of the events and medal winners.

3 comments:

  1. Hi...

    If you are looking on doing this type of visualization in excel.. check http://chandoo.org/wp/2008/08/06/olympic-medal-country-year-excel-bubble-chart/

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  2. The geographic view is a lot of fun. Didn't realize it was emulating where the continents basically are for about a minute.

    Very cool

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