As a Sports Data Analyst, I prepared the Althete Events data and provide analysis based on the assigned task.

##   ID                     Name Sex Age Height Weight           Team NOC
## 1  1                A Dijiang   M  24    180     80          China CHN
## 2  2                 A Lamusi   M  23    170     60          China CHN
## 3  3      Gunnar Nielsen Aaby   M  24     NA     NA        Denmark DEN
## 4  4     Edgar Lindenau Aabye   M  34     NA     NA Denmark/Sweden DEN
## 5  5 Christine Jacoba Aaftink   F  21    185     82    Netherlands NED
## 6  5 Christine Jacoba Aaftink   F  21    185     82    Netherlands NED
##         Games Year Season      City         Sport
## 1 1992 Summer 1992 Summer Barcelona    Basketball
## 2 2012 Summer 2012 Summer    London          Judo
## 3 1920 Summer 1920 Summer Antwerpen      Football
## 4 1900 Summer 1900 Summer     Paris    Tug-Of-War
## 5 1988 Winter 1988 Winter   Calgary Speed Skating
## 6 1988 Winter 1988 Winter   Calgary Speed Skating
##                                Event Medal
## 1        Basketball Men's Basketball  <NA>
## 2       Judo Men's Extra-Lightweight  <NA>
## 3            Football Men's Football  <NA>
## 4        Tug-Of-War Men's Tug-Of-War  Gold
## 5   Speed Skating Women's 500 metres  <NA>
## 6 Speed Skating Women's 1,000 metres  <NA>

Summary: Data Preparation - All the Athlete Events data from the Olympics from Summer of 1896 to Summer or 2016 has been loaded for future Analysis. In reviewing the Olympic data, the year had to be converted to a factor. Since the assigned analysis task are focused on medals all NA values in the medals column were removed.

##      ID                          Name Sex Age Height Weight          Team NOC
## 187  84          Stephen Anthony Abas   M  26    165     55 United States USA
## 279 145                 Jeremy Abbott   M  28    175     70 United States USA
## 284 150 Margaret Ives Abbott (-Dunne)   F  23     NA     NA United States USA
## 287 153         Monica Cecilia Abbott   F  23    191     88 United States USA
## 312 165           Nia Nicole Abdallah   F  20    175     56 United States USA
## 610 351    Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim   M  23    202    104 United States USA
##           Games Year Season    City          Sport
## 187 2004 Summer 2004 Summer  Athina      Wrestling
## 279 2014 Winter 2014 Winter   Sochi Figure Skating
## 284 1900 Summer 1900 Summer   Paris           Golf
## 287 2008 Summer 2008 Summer Beijing       Softball
## 312 2004 Summer 2004 Summer  Athina      Taekwondo
## 610 2000 Summer 2000 Summer  Sydney     Basketball
##                                        Event  Medal
## 187 Wrestling Men's Featherweight, Freestyle Silver
## 279                Figure Skating Mixed Team Bronze
## 284                  Golf Women's Individual   Gold
## 287                Softball Women's Softball Silver
## 312          Taekwondo Women's Featherweight Silver
## 610              Basketball Men's Basketball   Gold

Summary: In order to focus on the next 2 analysis task, a subset of the athlete_events data was created with just the United States as the Team.

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## # A tibble: 6 × 2
##   Sport      Total_Medal_Count
##   <chr>                  <int>
## 1 Athletics               1071
## 2 Swimming                1066
## 3 Basketball               341
## 4 Rowing                   333
## 5 Ice Hockey               276
## 6 Shooting                 193

Summary: Based on the analysis you can see that Top Medal Count are in Athletics and Swimming for the United States

##        ID                   Name Sex Age Height Weight          Team NOC
## 1463  813     Edgar Holmes Adams   M  36     NA     NA United States USA
## 1844 1017 Nathan Ghar-Jun Adrian   M  19    198    100 United States USA
## 1845 1017 Nathan Ghar-Jun Adrian   M  23    198    100 United States USA
## 1846 1017 Nathan Ghar-Jun Adrian   M  23    198    100 United States USA
## 1847 1017 Nathan Ghar-Jun Adrian   M  23    198    100 United States USA
## 1848 1017 Nathan Ghar-Jun Adrian   M  27    198    100 United States USA
##            Games Year Season           City    Sport
## 1463 1904 Summer 1904 Summer      St. Louis Swimming
## 1844 2008 Summer 2008 Summer        Beijing Swimming
## 1845 2012 Summer 2012 Summer         London Swimming
## 1846 2012 Summer 2012 Summer         London Swimming
## 1847 2012 Summer 2012 Summer         London Swimming
## 1848 2016 Summer 2016 Summer Rio de Janeiro Swimming
##                                              Event  Medal
## 1463            Swimming Men's Plunge For Distance Silver
## 1844 Swimming Men's 4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay   Gold
## 1845           Swimming Men's 100 metres Freestyle   Gold
## 1846 Swimming Men's 4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay Silver
## 1847    Swimming Men's 4 x 100 metres Medley Relay   Gold
## 1848            Swimming Men's 50 metres Freestyle Bronze

Summary: The USA Swim subset displays all USA Medals in the Swimming Sport.

## # A tibble: 10 × 2
##    Team          Total_Medal_Count_Team
##    <chr>                          <int>
##  1 United States                   5219
##  2 Soviet Union                    2451
##  3 Germany                         1984
##  4 Great Britain                   1673
##  5 France                          1550
##  6 Italy                           1527
##  7 Sweden                          1434
##  8 Australia                       1306
##  9 Canada                          1243
## 10 Hungary                         1127

Summary: Based on this analysis the United States holds the top Medal Count at 5219 and Hungry is the 10th Medal Count at 1127 Medals.

## # A tibble: 242 × 2
##    Team          Total_Gold_Medal_Count
##    <chr>                          <int>
##  1 United States                   2474
##  2 Soviet Union                    1058
##  3 Germany                          679
##  4 Italy                            535
##  5 Great Britain                    519
##  6 France                           455
##  7 Sweden                           451
##  8 Hungary                          432
##  9 Canada                           422
## 10 East Germany                     369
## # ℹ 232 more rows

Summary: United States holds the top Gold Medal count at 2,474 Gold Medals and the Soviet Union comes in second with a Gold Medal count of 1,058.

##   Total_Medals_Won_by_Women
## 1                       969

Summary: The total number of Medals won by Women in 2016 are 969 medals.