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

# Load library
library(tidyverse)

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

# View data
olympics

# A tibble: 299 × 12
   name                  sex     age height weight team           year games 
   <chr>                 <chr> <dbl>  <dbl>  <dbl> <chr>         <dbl> <chr> 
 1 Lindsey Napela Berg   F        28    173     77 United States  2008 Summer
 2 Brady Lee Ellison     M        27    181     86 United States  2016 Summer
 3 Brady Lee Ellison     M        27    181     86 United States  2016 Summer
 4 Marilou Dozios-Prvost F        22    160     48 Canada         2008 Summer
 5 Ashley Brzozowicz     F        25    176     75 Canada         2008 Summer
 6 Robert Jeffrey Dover  M        44    178     68 United States  2000 Summer
 7 Franois Bourque       M        21    182     88 Canada         2006 Winter
 8 Reid Coolsaet         M        37    173     62 Canada         2016 Summer
 9 Valrie Dionne         F        24    173     72 Canada         2004 Summer
10 Tanya Dubnicoff       F        30    170     68 Canada         2000 Summer
   city           sport         event                                    medal 
   <chr>          <chr>         <chr>                                    <chr> 
 1 Beijing        Volleyball    Volleyball Women's Volleyball            Silver
 2 Rio de Janeiro Archery       Archery Men's Individual                 Bronze
 3 Rio de Janeiro Archery       Archery Men's Team                       Silver
 4 Beijing        Weightlifting Weightlifting Women's Flyweight          no    
 5 Beijing        Rowing        Rowing Women's Coxed Eights              no    
 6 Sydney         Equestrianism Equestrianism Mixed Dressage, Individual no    
 7 Torino         Alpine Skiing Alpine Skiing Men's Giant Slalom         no    
 8 Rio de Janeiro Athletics     Athletics Men's Marathon                 no    
 9 Athina         Water Polo    Water Polo Women's Water Polo            no    
10 Sydney         Cycling       Cycling Women's 500 metres Time Trial    no    
# ℹ 289 more rows

References

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