OlympicPerfs dataset

Performances of competitors at the modern Summer Olympic Games

Performances at the Summer Olympic Games from 1896 to 2016. data

data(OlympicPerfs)

Format

A data frame with 108789 observations on the following 8 variables.

• rank: rank in event
• medalType: medal won: one of Gold, Silver, Bronze, NA
• games: location and year
• discipline: discipline of event
• event: name of event
• result_value: result reported
• result_type: type of result: distance, time, points, weight, and four others
• country: country

Details

This dataset and the dataset OlympicPeople are both used in Chapter 6, "The modern Olympic Games in numbers".

Source

Derived from a dataset scraped from the web and provided to the maintainer.

Examples

data(OlympicPerfs, package="GmooG")
library(tidyverse)
OlyD <- OlympicPerfs %>% count(discipline)