There are 33 Olympic athletes facing a lifetime ban for doping

Of those, five are from Russia

Four are from Ukraine

Two are from the USA

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Number of Olympic athletes banned for life due to doping

2004

2014

What sorts of drugs are the most popular?

Stanozolol

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Drostanolone

Metenolone

Methandienone

Data Notes

I approached the data using this angle because I had no idea a "lifetime ban" from the Olympic Games was even possible. That was news to me. Once I found that most of the banned athletes come from a handful of countries, I became more interested and thought that this should be visualized. The next thing I wanted to explain were the 5 most common drugs that lead to being banned. Some sort of description that explained what they did and why athletes would be tempted to use them would have been ideal.
There were some goals I couldn't achieve due to time constraints. Ideally the avatars in the beginning would be actual photos of all the athletes! Especially since there are only 33 of them that would have been really striking to see. I also wish I had time to make the package responsive on various screen sizes.
It would be cool if there was more metadata. Like if the user could view some basic information like the athlete's name, age, sport, and what previous Olympic game he/she had competed in.
Another graphic idea I would have loved to make if I had the time would be to profile drug offenders who had served their ban and are now eligible to compete in the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics. That graphic could have been really timely and interesting, especially if some of the athletes were high-profile hopefuls. I never got around to finishing that graphic because I had the hardest time finding all the sports associated with the athlete (you would think there's a dataset for that but there isn't!) so I did my best to clean the data using pandas. All my code is in the repo.

Eunice Lee is a junior at Northwestern University studying journalism. You can find her work here or her past experiences here This piece was created for an internship test and published on April 21, 2017.