R Shiny 2024 Olympic Medals App

project
R
Shiny
An R Shiny web app to visualise medals across countries during the 2024 Olympics.
Author

Melissa Bather

Published

February 12, 2026

During the 2024 Olympics, I created a simple R Shiny application to showcase medals data.

It uses a free API by codante, which updates every 5 minutes.

Warning: this app isn’t optimised and it is on the slow side! It is also best viewed on desktop.

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GitHub Repo

Citation

BibTeX citation:
@online{bather2026,
  author = {Bather, Melissa},
  title = {R {Shiny} 2024 {Olympic} {Medals} {App}},
  date = {2026-02-12},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Bather, Melissa. 2026. “R Shiny 2024 Olympic Medals App.” February 12, 2026.