Exploratory Data Analysis of Olympics to Interpret the Performance of Countries Over a Century

Exploratory Data Analysis of Olympics to Interpret the Performance of Countries Over a Century

Supriya Mishra, Ravi Verma*, Yogesh Tilawath**, Suraj Mishra**

* Information Science and Engineering, Acharya Institute of Technology

Abstract- Olympics are one of the main international events and also a matter of prestige for countries and therefore each country tries to give their best performance during the event. An analysis needs to be done by each country to evaluate the previous statistics which will detect the mistakes which they have done previously and will also help them in future development. Visualization of the data over various factors will provide us with the statistical view of the various factors which lead to the evolution of the Olympic Games and Improvement in the performance of various Countries/Players over time.

Index Terms- Olympics, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data visualization, Descriptive Statistics, Data preprocessing