Monday 17 August 2009

Question for August 17th - Nikhil


In the graphic above, different continents are shown in different colors, and the size of the circles is relative to some quantity. What quantity? (The circle for India exists, but is too small to get a label)

10 comments:

SKK said...

Countries ordered by their manufacturing output? China and the US are eerily close! India doesn't exist. Brazil is appearing...

Rahul said...

The large sizes of the Cuba, Australia and China bubble and the dismally small size of the India bubble suggests a correlation with olympic medals.

China's and Britain's size point to the Beijing games. Since the United States bubble is a touch bigger than the China bubble, my guess is that size of the circles is proportional to the total number of medals won (or some points system based on that), not just the total number of golds...

I am not sure why there is a colour coding based on continents though...I suppose this must be some American trick to feel better about themselves after losing the gold medal crown this time :P

Ankur said...

Medals won at 2008 Olympics.

China headed for world domination I reckon.

Kiran Vyakaranam said...

Looking at how big Kenya, Belarus and Ukraine are the only thing that they can have in common in my guess is number of Olympic medals won by a country. That also explains why India is so small. But that doesn't look right given South Korea is bigger than Japan. maybe it is number of Olympic medals per capita. But then again China can't be so big as the European nations.Is it divided by number of appearances?

Sailesh Ganesh said...

Average number of medals at Olympics that countries have participated in?

Madhur said...

The Size is relative to the number of Olympic medals won?

IC said...

Distribution of number of Olympic medals won by different countries?

Dev said...

Olympic medal tally? Probably Gold medals won by country at 2008 olympics.

Roy said...

That's the Olympic games medal tally??

The Answer said...

Answer: Medals won in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Most of you got it right (though a couple of you were guilty of overthinking :)). Congrats Rahul, Patel, Kiran, B, Madhur, Ishani, Dev and Roy (Roystein??).