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Olympic Games Costs

Costs of the Olympic Games held from 1960 to 2014

(11 columns, 30 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the resource:

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ResourceObject["Olympic Games Costs"]
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Retrieve the default content:

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ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"]
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Visualization

See which countries have spent the most to host the Olympic Games:

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GeoRegionValuePlot[ Total /@ DeleteMissing /@ GroupBy[ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"], #CountryEntity &][All, All, #Cost &]]
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Plot costs per event over time:

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DateListPlot[ GroupBy[ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"], #Type &][All, All, {#Year, #Cost} &], PlotRange -> All, Filling -> Bottom]
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Plot the countries that have hosted both Winter and Summer Olympics:

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summerHosts = Select[ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"], #Type == "Summer" &][ All, "CountryEntity"]; winterHosts = Select[ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"], #Type == "Winter" &][ All, "CountryEntity"]; GeoListPlot[Intersection[summerHosts, winterHosts]]
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See which countries have hosted the most Olympic Games:

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BarChart[ Counts /@ SortBy[GroupBy[ ResourceData["Olympic Games Costs"], #CountryEntity &][All, All, #Type &], Length], ChartLayout -> "Stacked", BarOrigin -> Left, ChartLabels -> {Automatic, None}, ChartLegends -> {None, Automatic}]
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Analysis

Wolfram Research, "Olympic Games Costs" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.79874.data

License Information

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04484

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: The Oxford Olympics Study 2016: Cost and Cost Overrun at the Games
  • Creator: Bent Flyvbjerg
  • Contributor: Allison Stewart
  • Publisher: Cornell University Library
  • Date: 14 July 2016
  • Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04484

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research