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Olympic Hosts

Source Notebook

Dataset containing information about all historical Olympic hosts

Details

Dataset columns include:
"Name"official name of the event
"StartDate"start date of the games
"EndDate"end date of the games
"Country"host country
Season""Winter" or "Summer"
"Year"year of the event

(6 columns, 53 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples (3) 

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ds = ResourceData[\!\(\* TagBox["\"\<Olympic Hosts\>\"", #& , BoxID -> "ResourceTag-Olympic Hosts-Input", AutoDelete->True]\)]
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Make a geo-plot of all the hosting countries:

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GeoListPlot[ds[All, "Country"]]
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Some countries no longer exist:

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westGermany = Normal[ds[Select[StringContainsQ[#Name, "Munich"] &], "Country"]]
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GeoListPlot[westGermany]
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Compute a table of countries that hosted the most Olympic Games:

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ReverseSort@CountsBy[ds, #Country &]
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Arnoud Buzing, "Olympic Hosts" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2024)  

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Publisher Information

  • Prepared for the Wolfram Data Repository By: Arnoud Buzing
  • Publisher of Record: Arnoud Buzing