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You can think it the other way around. There's going to be some continuity as many athletes compete in many olympics during their career, even if it's "sampled"
by Gravityloss 10y ago
You can think it the other way around. There's going to be some continuity as many athletes compete in many olympics during their career, even if it's "sampled" every four years. Also most often some sports scenes and countries experience cycles. I find it a lot easier to see those kind of things from continuous curves. Even if it's not so exact.
- yiyus 10y agoThe graphs are really bad. The problem I have is not the continuity, which as you say can help to identify trends, but the huge gap between two real data points. It should be clear what is real data and what is not (for example, using a linespoints graph), it really looks like there were medals won in non-onlympic years. The author focused too much on making beautiful graphs instead of just presenting the data.
- stinos 10y agoAnd maybe it's just me but I think colored lines would be clearer than those colored surfaces which seem to originate at 0 after the gapss.
- jameshart 10y agoBut when the big variations are caused by things like boycotts and the fact that games simply didn't take place, then this continuity argument doesn't really make sense. US Sports didn't slowly collapse from 1976 to 1980 then gradually recover through to 1984.