The recently updated Olympic motto reads “Citius, Altius, Fortius - Communiter” in Latin, which means “Faster, Higher, Stronger - Together” in English. But whoever competes and wins, let’s remember the unifying power of sport and the great importance of solidarity. Use these cool medal count projects to keep track of the Tokyo Olympics results. The medals can be sorted by rank or by date. Hover over a medal in a country’s collection and you will see the details of who, when, and in what sport and discipline have won it. Depicting every medal won by a country as one medal of the respective color (gold, silver, or bronze), it provides an informative overview of how many medals each of the competing nations have already deserved to take home from Tokyo 2020. The Olympic medal tracker launched by Axios looks pretty simple yet elegant. Scroll down a little bit to check out how each of the competing nations stacks up by current rank and current medals, medals won vs expected, and projected final rank. Check out the streamgraph visualization for the top five countries. So, in this project, you can compare the current Olympic award count for each nation with how many medals FiveThirtyEight thought it would have already won and see how much more it might get during the remaining time.
(Learn more about the methodology here if you would like.) The projections used as the point of reference were generated based on the competing countries’ achievements in each sport over the past three Summer Olympics. FiveThirtyEight: “Which Countries Are Doing Better - Or Worse - Than Expected At The Tokyo Olympics?”įiveThirtyEight‘s interactive medal count project offers a look at the number of medals won by the national teams in the context of the initial analytic expectations. Other weights are represented in between. If you believe all medals matter and have the same value in such rankings, the bottom left corner is all yours. For example, if you only care about the number of gold medals, check the top right corner. The interactive charts here display each country’s current rank at the Olympics depending on the relative worth of one gold medal to one silver medal and one silver medal to one bronze medal. The New York Times’s The Upshot allows you to check all possible medal counting functions and see what country is leading in Tokyo according to what you believe is the ultimate measure of success in the Olympic Games. But if you sort countries based on the total number of medals won, it appears that the United States is at the top. For instance, as of the time of writing, China holds a lead if you prefer to count gold medals alone. If you are wondering what nation is doing best at the Tokyo Olympics, first you should determine the ranking model as the answer depends on it completely. The Upshot by NYT: “Tokyo Olympics: Who Leads the Medal Count?” A line-based isotype, force-directed clusters, and a whole lot of bubbles also do a great job communicating various interesting information about the current and previous Summer Olympic Games in a stunning way and making the medal tracker on Bloomberg News really fun to explore. An international map grid is used to visualize the medal distribution at Tokyo 2020, Rio 2016, and London 2012.
In particular, streamgraphs are there to represent historical medals won, for each sport. In addition to a standard, table-based representation of the medal count by country along with the information on the latest results and the calendar of Olympic events, there you can find a number of compelling visualizations and take a deep dive into the historical context.
It is an impressive project with a lot of (beautiful) everything. Let’s begin with Bloomberg‘s Tokyo 2020 medal tracker. In this special edition of DataViz Weekly, we are happy to showcase four wonderful Olympic medal trackers providing an insightful view of medal counts and country standings with the help of telling visualizations - from Bloomberg News, The New York Times’s The Upshot, FiveThirtyEight, and Axios.ĭata Visualization Weekly: JAugBloomberg News: “Tokyo Summer Olympics Medal Count” Delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Summer Olympics officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly referred to simply as Tokyo 2020 have been underway for two weeks and are already coming to a close, with under 50 medal sets yet to be distributed over the remaining two days.
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