The Olympic Games are one of the most prestigious sporting events in the world. They have been held every four years since 1896, with the exception of World War I and World War II. The Games have seen some of the greatest athletes in history compete in a wide variety of sports.
The goal of this project is to research the history of the Olympic Games and find interesting statistics. The project aims to answer questions such as:
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Which years,cities and countries the Olympics were held in?
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Which countries has won the most medals?
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How has the participation of women in the Olympic Games changed over time?
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Do host countries generally win more medals in the Olympics?
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How has the number of sports in the Olympics changed over time?
Dataset is from Kaggle
Data Collector's answer :
The data is scrapped from www.olympedia.org which has the latest up to date olympic data set from 1896 Athene Summer Olympics to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Web Scrapping Project is provided via the source code in github using Python's BeautifulSoup.
