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Does a High Average BMI Impact a Country’s Chance at the Olympics?

Jul 26, 2012

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Brendan Barry

in My Work

It turns out not so much. A comparison of the 2008 data for average BMI (coarsely how fat a person is) for countries across their economic productivity (GDP per capita) and total medals won shows that a country’s health culture does not greatly impact said country’s Olympic chances. This is another from my work series…
2012 Olympics: What Makes a Winner (and Will the UK Be One)?

Jul 19, 2012

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by

Brendan Barry

in Infographic, My Work

The Olympics are coming, the Olympics are coming. (As if you didn’t know.) In a rare moment of seeing my work outside of my company’s paywall, I can post a few infographics I have created for the 2012 Summer Games in London. The series looks at a few different non-Olympic variables like GDP per capita…