{"id":6153,"date":"2012-08-20T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2012-08-20T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:00:48","slug":"which-countries-really-won-the-most-gold-in-the-2012-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.questionpro.com\/blog\/which-countries-really-won-the-most-gold-in-the-2012-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Countries Really Won the Most Gold in the 2012 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Olympics are over, we can really get into the numbers and statistics. \u00a0Over at Research Access they explored the sheer amount of data that will be processed throughout the <a href=\"http:\/\/researchaccess.com\/2012\/08\/infographic-big-data-at-the-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2012 Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we often count and track the number of medals countries win, this cool inforgraphic brings to light that it&#8217;s not 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