Are You Too Old for the Olympics?
3 Jul 2012Age ranges for each sport for the past three summer games.
(note: I couldn’t get the age filter at the top to work in either firefox or IE)
The medals are mostly won by the young, however:
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3 Responses to Are You Too Old for the Olympics?
Ryan Z
July 3rd, 2012 at 12:49 pm
The outliers make the 1st chart misleading. A box plot would have been much more informative. Though having a separate male/female boxplot overlapping might have its own visual challenges.
Deceneace
July 9th, 2012 at 10:03 pm
In second graph, how does one get relative conclusion out of only absolute numbers of medals?
David
July 12th, 2012 at 12:17 am
ranges are useless. medians would actually convey information. somebody wasted a lot of time on the first graph.