Beijing 2008 Olympics: Total Medals by CountryThe Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics began with a many bangs, courtesy of the thousands of drummers in the opening ceremony. Once competition began, a tally of medals won seemed like an obvious data set for Swivel. Since no-one else had embarked on this task, I decided to take it on myself. At first I was typing in the data, but scanning the medal table on the <a href='http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml'>Official Olympics site</a> quickly became a challenge. It was time for an automated solution, so I whipped up a little perl script to scrape the data and I now update the data fairly regularly (not quite real time though).371800.0Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:58:22 -0700Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:03:19 -0700seancarmodyHorizontalBarGraphdefaultTotal