Paralympics Dataset

September 2024 Sports Difficulty 3/5 XLSX 2.8 MB 29,170 rows × 27 cols 0 downloads
  • paralympics
  • sports
  • medals
  • athletes
  • timeseries

29,170 Paralympic event records spanning games, sports, events, medals, host city, and athlete fields. Deep enough for national-committee performance analysis, sport-by-games comparisons, and athlete-career arcs.

Challenge brief

slug: 2024-09-paralympics title: Paralympics Dataset year: 2024 month: 09 source: authored authored_at: 2026-04-19 needs_leon_review: true

Paralympics Dataset - Challenge Brief

Challenge period: September 2024 Dataset: Reconstructed brief based on the shipped data file for the September 2024 DataDNA challenge.

About the data

The primary data table for this challenge carries the following columns:

  • games_code
  • games_year
  • games_city
  • City_latitude
  • City_longitude
  • games_country
  • Country_latitude
  • Country_longitude
  • games_continent
  • games_start
  • games_end
  • games_season
  • sport
  • sport_code
  • event_venue
  • events
  • npcs
  • athletes
  • event
  • medal
  • npc
  • npc_new
  • npc_name
  • npc_name_latitude
  • npc_name_longitude
  • ...and 2 more columns

Suggested analytical angles

  • How has participation and medal distribution evolved across games?
  • Which sports show the broadest national-committee representation?
  • How does host city correlate with medal outcomes?
  • Which athletes dominate across events and games?

What great submissions did

This brief was reconstructed from the dataset contents in 2026 as part of the Playground audit. The original September 2024 challenge brief was not preserved as a separate file in the source archive, so the analytical angles above are inferred from the column list. See the corresponding /challenges/ entry on datadna.onyxdata.co.uk for examples of how participants approached the data.

Editorial note

_This stub was authored by Claude on 2026-04-19 for Leon's review. Refine the suggested angles and confirm factual accuracy before setting brief_status = leon_reviewed in the audit log._

This dataset was the subject of the DataDNA September 2024 community challenge. The original scoring and leaderboard pre-date the current submission system and are not available for display.

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