Giorgio Comai

Winter Olympics 2026 medalists by place of birth: an interactive map I built (again) thanks to @wikipedia, @wikidata and #rstats).

Check out the interactive version of the map: https://giocomai.github.io/olympics2026nuts/medalists_map.html #olympics #winterolympics

Feb 11 at 7:23amTuba
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If we look by number of medals by EU NUTS region by population, my native Trentino-South Tyrol tops the list so far. See repo: https://github.com/giocomai/olympics2026nuts
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Criteria for counting medals (since summer 2021)

> "I took a lazy if controversial approach. I decided that I will count each medal and each medalist the same. Bronze and gold look just as shiny to me. The official table counts just one medal for a team win, but I think that each piece of metal is a piece of joy for the person who brings it home: if eight people row together to get a medal and each can place a medal around their neck, then that’s eight medals for me."

https://medium.com/european-data-journalism-network/the-data-you-need-to-win-the-olympics-if-you-go-nuts-6d03b9df34e6

The data you need to win the Olympics if you go NUTS

What if the Olympic medal table was based on the number of medals won by regions, not by countries? A post by Giorgio Comai

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You can see data and explore maps for all previous Summer Olympics since 1960: https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/

e.g. 2024 Summer Olympics map: https://edjnet.github.io/OlympicsGoNUTS/2024/medalists_map.html

#olympics