olympics.csv

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event held every four years in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in various sports competitions. The Olympics are one of the most significant and prestigious sporting events globally, promoting unity, friendship, and fair play among nations.

The data in olympics.csv includes information about \(N=300\) randomly sampled Olympians from the United States and Canada.

The attributes included in the data are:

name: Olympian’s name
sex: Olympian’s sex (F = Female, M = Male)
age: Olympian’s age (in years)
height: Olympian’s height (in cm)
weight: Olympian’s weight (in kg)
team: Team the Olympian competed for (United States or Canada)
year: Year in which the Olympian competed
games: Games in which the Olympian competed (Summer or Winter)
city: City in which the Olympic Games took place
sport: Broad category of sport in which the Olympian competed
event: More specific event in which the Olympian competed
medal: Medal won by the Olympian (No, Bronze, Silver, Gold)

Preview

# Import data
library(tidyverse)
olympics = read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/epsy-5261/main/data/olympics.csv")

# View data
olympics

References

The original data were made availabel by Bhanupratap Biswas on Kaggle.