Tokyo Olympics

Sick of 2021? You are not alone. In just a few short days, this wretched year will be finally put out of its misery. We started with the Big Lie of a stolen election leading to a violent insurrectionist mob storming one of our most sacred symbols of government and…

Using Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn — Index Of Contents · 1) Installing Required Libraries · 2) Download Dataset ∘ 2.1) Data Cleaning · 3) Finding Insights ∘ 3.1) Finding Top 10 Countries according to World ranking in Tokyo Olympics ∘ 3.2) Arranging Countries according to highest Gold Medals Wins ∘ 3.3) Ranking of India in…

Tokyo Olympics 2020 was India’s best at the medal tally. The highlight of all was India’s first gold in athletics when Neeraj Chopra won it in the men’s javelin throw. Since then, he has been everywhere. From news channels and online interviews to TV and reality show stages. …

Arvind Malik, a para-athlete, has won several medals in his career. He plays shot put in the F35 events. He has set a world record at the IPC Athletics Asia- Oceania Championship 2016- Men’s discus throw with a Gold Medal. In a candid telephonic chat with Sociotab, he shared his…

After years of arduous preparation, their dreams never came to fruition — solely due to reasons outside of their control. So, what now? Every four years, the magic of the Summer Olympics appears on television screens across the world. The pageantry, the bright lights, the drama — all is in…

Apache Spark as a Big Data tool In search of something new in the data world, I decided to learn Apache Spark- Analytics Engine for Big Data. Spark achieves high performance for both batch and streaming data. It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. …

The most hard-working, unconventional, and inspirational cyclist in Tokyo — The average cyclist at the Olympics will have a whole team of people backing them up. From personalized nutrition to training plans to race registration, everything is taken care of. All the athlete has to do is show up and compete. But this year, the winner of the women’s road…

Bullet Bob Hayes, the World’s Fastest Human On October 15th, 1964, Robert Lee Hayes of Jacksonville hunched over his starting blocks in Tokyo, at the Olympic games, methodically pounding the spikes that would hold those blocks in place into the cinder track with a large rubber hammer. He was twenty-years-old and wearing sunglasses. He looked cool. …