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2008 Olympic Medal Counts by Population

Started by spullara · 6 months ago

There are obviously a lot of ways to measure how well a country did at the Olympics. This post takes a view that we should look at how many people the country had to draw on in order to send the athletes to China to compete. There are a lot of problems with this [...] ... Continue reading »

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Gaurav
10 months ago

Why? Why would anyone do this? :)) You need to have one full america in India to win a medal. You should consider other parameters as well. Nagesh' suggestion of using quality of life (per capita income?) would be interesting to see.

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sam
10 months ago

As I mention in the blog, I agree that this is biased against countries that are either uninterested or unable to compete. Here is the original spreadsheet if you want to mess around with it:

http://sheet.zoho.com/public/spullara/olympic-m...

Ah, should have done a quick search before bothering. Fun exercise anyway:

http://www.stubbornmule.net/2008/08/olympics-by...

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James Williams
10 months ago

Looking at China's totals really makes you think for a sec about how many of the kids taken from their families as toddlers to enter those athletic academies DON'T make it.

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Sean Carmody
10 months ago

@sam: The more the merrier, I say! But, I'm glad you found my piece as well! In a follow-up post I actually decided to award the adjusted Olympic games to Jamaica. This is because they came second in the medals per capita and third by GDP. In fact, if you look at score (Gold = 3 points, Silver = 2 points, Bronze = 1 point), Jamaica actually came first per capita!

Note also that the Netherland Antilles place in the ranking was short-lived as their runner was disqualified and lost their medal!

I've popped all the data (including GDP results) over on Swivel and you can find everything here: http://www.swivel.com/users/show/1009803

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Sean Carmody
10 months ago

@Gaurav Why? Because it's fun!

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Medela
4 months ago

Just tried Powerset it's truly better than Google or yahoo in terms of providing the proper information! Now I got the idea how you managed to made this post look so simple and awesome! thanks for the heads up about Powerset, I never knew of it's existence.

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miles libbey
3 months ago

Next time, just ask someone in the sports team -- we had to go collect that data as well to produce pages like http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/aus.

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