1. U.S.A. IN OLYMPICS(2000-2012)
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Alpine
Skiing
Archery
Athletics Baseball
Basketball
Beach
Volleyball
Boxing
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Figure
Skating
Freestyle
Skiing
Gymnastics
Ice Hockey
Judo
Luge
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Short−Track
Speed Skating
Snowboarding
Speed
Skating
Swimming
Synchronized
Swimming
TaekwondoTennis
Triathlon
Waterpolo
Wrestling
An Olympic medal is the greatest achivement and honor that can be received by an athlete. With
more than 200 countries as participants, Olympics are the leading international sporting event.
Olympic games are held once in four years.This poster explains us the position of USA in winning
olympic medals and their categories from 2000 to 2012.
Top five countries across the world in winning the
medals. USA ranks first with 1312 medals with
highest number of gold medals in swimming
(139). The list is followed by Russia (740), Germa-
ny (635), Australia (610) and China (565).
USA
Germany
Russia
Australia
China
Alpine Skiing
Archery
Athletics
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Bobsleigh
Boxing
Canoeing
Curling
Cycling
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Figure Skating
Football
Freestyle Skiing
Gymnastics
Ice Hockey
Judo
Luge
Modern
Pentathlon
Nordic
Combined
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Short−Track
Speed Skating
Skeleton
Snowboarding Softball Speed Skating
Swimming
Synchronized
Swimming
Taekwondo
Tennis Triathlon
Volleyball
Waterpolo
Weightlifting
Wrestling
USA
Russia
Germany
Australia
China
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
SKETCHES
I have used treemap, pie chart and bar charts to
sketch my poster.The dataset was cleaned in excel and
analyzed columns to generate sketches.Sketches give us
an idea on the final visulization. I have used R to
generate my plots and Adobe illustrator to design my
poster.
Source: www.tableausoftware.com/
Desgined By : Jagadeeswara Reddy Konikanti
Class : IST 719 - Information Visualization
Audience:
People who are interested to find out the number of
medals won by USA in Olympics. Also, this poster
helps to understand which is the most popular sport
of USA in winning the medals.
medals won by usa from 2000 to 2012
Data Questions:
1. What are the top 5 coutries in winning the medals?
2. What is the total number of medals won by USA?
3. In which sport, USA won most number of medals?
4. Which Olympics are more popular in USA (Summer/ Winter)?
sports according to their medals
top 5 countries
fun facts of usa in olympics
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
USA won 34% of
total medals
in Olympics
Age of youngest
athlete
who won medal
for USA is 15
Age of oldest
athlete
who won medal
for USA is 49
In Swimming,
Gold Medals won
=
Silver + Bronze
Medals
All time record of
medals is on
Michael Phelps
with 22 medals
SUMMER
WINTER
Data Sketch 2
Top 5 Countries
Data Sketch 3
Medals won in Summer / Winter Olympics
Data Sketch 1
Sports in which USA won medals
Bobsleigh
Curling
Alpine
Skiing