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Summer Olympic Medals 1896-present

by Bill McKeeman

18 Aug 2008 (Updated 24 Jun 2009)

Code covered by BSD License

Ways of looking at the record of summer olympic medals

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Description	The medal counts from 1896 onward are recorded in MATLAB script files that load the records into an array. Several ways to look at the data are provided. Run OlympicDemo for examples. Feel free to write more ways to analyze the data.
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
Zip File Content
Published M Files	Summer Olympic Medals 1896-present
Other Files	allSummers.m, ChinaRussiaUS.jpg, games.m, getTotalMedals.m, html/OlympicDemo.png, html/OlympicDemo_01.png, html/OlympicDemo_02.png, license.txt, listHosts.m, listRanks.m, listSites.m, OlympicDemo.m, plotCountryGolds.m, plotCountryMedals.m, plotTotalMedals.m, rankGSB.m, rankTotalMedals.m, record.m, roman.m, summer1896.m, summer1900.m, summer1904.m, summer1908.m, summer1912.m, summer1916.m, summer1920.m, summer1924.m, summer1928.m, summer1932.m, summer1936.m, summer1940.m, summer1944.m, summer1948.m, summer1952.m, summer1956.m, summer1960.m, summer1964.m, summer1968.m, summer1972.m, summer1976.m, summer1980.m, summer1984.m, summer1988.m, summer1992.m, summer1996.m, summer2000.m, summer2004.m, summer2008.m, teamNames.m

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Updates
19 Aug 2008	fixing typo
21 Aug 2008	Added some information to published demo.
21 Aug 2008	fixed table errors, changed appearance, added references
25 Aug 2008	added 2008 results
23 Sep 2008	Correct error in Mexico medal count
24 Jun 2009	slight rewording

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
gallery	Bill McKeeman	22 Oct 2008 10:15:05
olympic medals	Bill McKeeman	22 Oct 2008 10:15:05
summer	Bill McKeeman	22 Oct 2008 10:15:05
present	Bill McKeeman	22 Oct 2008 10:15:05
1896	Bill McKeeman	22 Oct 2008 10:15:05
potw	Cristina McIntire	07 Nov 2008 13:05:32

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