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Summer Olympics - Sport Popularity Check-up

Summer Olympics - Sport Popularity Check-up

How popular are each Olympic sport on Wikipedia by the 5th of August?

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Milan Janosov
Aug 05, 2024
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Wikipedia is probably the number one go-to information source globally when Googling anything — perhaps, besides ChatGPT. Hence, the total number of views any page or topic receives on Wikipedia may be a good indicator of the level of public interest in any topic.

In this short piece, I use Python to extract the popularity level, expressed by Wikipedia v…

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