Author: xWang
Source: [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/seniorwx/shorttrack/data)
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Short Track Speed Skating Database for Sports Data Analysis
The database covers all the international short track games in the last 5 years. Currently it contains only men's 500m.
Detailed lap data including personal time and ranking in each game from seasons 2012/2013 to present .
The final time results, ranking, starting position, qualified or penalized information of each athlete in each game.
All series of World Cup, World Championship, European Championship and Olympic Games.
Original data source
The data is collected from the ISU's (International Skating Union) official website. I have already done the cleaning procedure.
Please make sure that the data are only for personal and non-commercial use.
Explore the data
Interesting questions may be like:
- What will happen in a game when there are more than one athlete from the same team? Are there performance all improved?
- How does the performance of athletes change within a season and over seasons?
- Do some athletes have special patterns in terms of time allocation and surpassing opportunity?
- What is the influence of the implementation of 'no toe starts' rules on athletes since July 2015?
- Is there also home advantage like in other sports?
Who are the most dangerous guys that always get penalty?