Olympic Swimming History

exploratory data analysis
Olympic swimming data from 1912-2020. Includes athlete name, year, team, location, time, medal/no medal, stroke, distance, etc.
Author

Andrew Poock

Published

July 2, 2024

Motivation

Source: olympics.com Background: results of swimming races in the olympics from 1912-2020

Data

Each row is an event that an athlete competed in, with 4359 total rows. There are no missing values, and the columns are as follows:

Olympic_Swimming_1912-2020.csv
Variable Description
Location Hosting city
Year Year of Olympics
Distance Distance in meters. Relays are the number of swimmers by the distance swam by one swimmer
Stroke Stroke type
Relay? 0-Individual/1-Relay
Gender Men/Women
Team 3 Letter country code
Athlete Name of athlete
Results Time minutes:seconds.decimal
Rank 0-DNS or DQ/1-Gold/2-Silver/3-Bronze/4-No Medal/5-No Data

Questions

  1. What is the difference between winning times for men/women? Between strokes?

  2. What is the difference in time between gold and not medaling?

References

Posted by datasciencedonut on Kaggle.