This repo contains a comprehensive dataset on summer & winter Olympic athletes & their results between 1896-2022 (will be updated with 2024 results after the upcoming Paris Games)
This data comes from olympedia.org and was web scraped with the Python Beautiful Soup library (see scrape_data.py)
- athletes/bios.csv contains the raw biographical information on each athlete
- results/results.csv contains a row-by-row breakdown of each event athletes competed in and their results in that event.
Note, in the process of scraping this dataset, temporary CSV files were created to checkpoint scraping progress. For simplicity these checkpointed files have since been removed from the repository.
Easier to analyze data can be found in clean-data/ folder. In addition to the results and bios info, you can find data files with additional lat/long location data for athletes, NOC region codes, and historic populations of countries over time.