We were tasked with creating an information visualisation to educate a target market on a topic of choice. I decided to create a series of Information visualisations using R and Javascript, embedded into a website, to educate Australians on the sport of freestyle mogul skiing in the lead up to the 2018 Winter Olympics, and also cover the 2017 world cup competition in which Australia won a Gold medal in the females and a Bronze in the male.
Interactive Visualisation
The interactive visualisation above lets you dig deeper into previous Olympic results and show how different countries have performed. The Medals are placed at each athletes birthplace and can be filtered based on gender, olympic year and medal type. When tallied the medals move from the athlete's birthplace to the country they represented. When each medal is clicked details about the athlete are shown and once tallied you can hover over each country to see the number of Olympic wins and which athletes are responsible for those wins.
What is really interesting about this visualisation is the number of athletes not born in the country that they represent, with the US represented by athletes born as far away as Korea. This also highlights an interesting fact about Australia in that no Australian-born athlete has ever one a medal in this sport. The sole athlete to win medals for Australia is Canadian born Dale Begg Smith who moved to represent Australia in Moguls after Canada refused to let him work on his company and train simultaneously. This further emphasises why the next Olympics is so important for Australia as we are heading into the 2018 Olympics with 22 year old Brittany Cox currently ranked world number 1 and well on her way to win the first female medal in moguls in Australia's history, and with 22 year old Matt Graham who is currently ranked world number 3 with heavy medal prospects.