Chapter 1 Introduction

This data exploration and visualization project tries to understand the global history from Athens 1986 till 2016 Rio Olympics including women empowerment, shifting power dynamics of nations and society values over the years through Olympics data. We explore the patterns in number of athletes, where they come from, female proportions for different nations and sports over the years.

We explore these patterns and see how they were affected by the contemporary events, for example how world war events affected the Olympic games. Which countries wins most medals? How different are the characteristics of the athletes for each sport? What are the statistics of both summer and winter Olympic games? We will try to answer these questions through the power of data exploration and visualization.