I found this data visualisation on the delicious site when I was re directed to the New York Times website in the sports section. The actual content to me as I am not a fan of the Olympics is pretty trivial and useless, but I like the fact that the content indirectly references past world events in it’s data such as the American led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the soviet union’s invasion of Afghanistan. This is not mentioned in the data but it is affected by it. Cool.
The design might not be great looking but it does the job when trying to covey its data. Unlike most of these data visualisations I can understand it and it is nice to have the numbers lurking in the background to accurately determine the medal count. The idea that the circles are geographically placed is also really helpful when trying to find your countries medal count.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
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