▶️ Total olympic medals won in Paris 2024 and Human Development Index 🏅

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➡️ https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/what-olympic-medal-table-really-tells-us

After reading the article we made this #boxplot using #LabPlot, an open source data analysis and visualization software.

The plot doesn’t provide answers, it rather invites some thinking.

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    A boxplot is a visualization tool to quickly get an idea of how the data is distributed. In this population the outliers are so large that the info the real box + whiskers give is very low.

    In your title you suggest investigating a relationship between total Olympic medals and HDI - why not choose a scatter plot here?

    That the number in square brackets refers to the HDI rank only get’s clear on the second look.

    The outliers being distributed over the X-Axis is confusing.

    Sorry but this visualization is not beautiful, rather the wrong method used that cannot display the hypothesis stated in the title.