As a follow-up to my previous post about the 2016 Olympics, I've collected data about all countries that have participated in the Olympics since the first one was held in its modern form in 1896 and put it all in a nice interactive graph. Continue reading →
While watching the Olympics this year I started wondering if the reason countries such as the USA and China are among the top medal earners was because of their sheer population. Assuming all other factors are negligible (which they probably aren't), it stands to reason that great athletes have a higher chance to be born in a highly populous country. A quick glance at the medal table shows that this cannot be the case, or Great Britain wouldn't have more medals than China. But let's see how far from the truth it is. Continue reading →
Ever since stumbling across this awesome dataset of all Reddit submissions from about 2006 to August 2015, I've been trying to find neat ways of visualizing such a vast amount of data. Continue reading →
Here's submissions per day across all of Reddit (based on this awesome dataset). I looked up some of the more prominent spikes and annotated the ones I could find a plausible cause for. Continue reading →
Posts on Reddit can be upvoted or downvoted and comments can be placed. But how is this attention distributed? Does each post get their share, or does the top 1% get 99% of all the upvotes and comments? Continue reading →