The glowing hearts in Vancouver eventually died down with the ending of the Winter Paralympics yesterday. Time for another review and another map: The following map shows the final results of the Paralympics with the countries of the world re-sized according to the total number of medals awarded at the Paralympics (click map for larger view):
This map becomes quite interesting when opposed to the results of the Olympics. The more affluent countries dominate the whole picture again at the Paralympics, but there are some obvious differences. China disappeared, Eastern Europe grew and Canada finally managed to catch up with the United States. Here is the map of the Olympics again:
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Vancouver 2010 medal count
The Winter Olympics in Vancouver yielded some great visualizations, with the New York Times work being amongst the top ones. They are showing off a map of the Winter Olympic Medals in the tradition of the Dorling cartograms. They also did a great job on a 3D map of the venues.
For those who want for worldmapper style maps, here is the relief: The worldmapper map of the actual medal count. The following is transformed due to a country’s total number of medals it has won.
A larger version of the map can be viewed by clicking on the image.