This notebook analyzes the performance trends in the men's and women's 100-meter and 200-meter dash in the Summer Olympic Games. The goal is to understand:
- How fast each medalists' time is compared to the model's expected result for that Olympic year
- Which medalist overperformed their expected result the most compared to all other competitors in the same event
- To predict the expected result for Gold, Silver, and Bronze in the 2024 Olympic Games 100-meter and 200-meter dash
This notebook was forked and based on Omri Goldstein's work on Kaggle. The updates to his notebook are the following:
- Added results from the Summer 2020 Olympic Games
- Plotted the data and fitted an exponential curve for each medal
- Removed outlier results from early Summer Olympic Games to better fit model
- Predicted the results for the 2024 men's and women's 100-meter and 200-meter dash
For a more detailed analysis of this project, you can read my blog post on Medium.