Simon Rogers, professor Christoforos Anagnosopolous and interactive designer/programmer Garry Blight explain what went into producing the Guardian's alternative Olympic medal table
Council spending on the Olympic torch relay: where did the money go?
Collaborative investigation site Help Me Investigate has compiled data which shows how council spending on the Olympic torch relay breaks down. Explore the database
What did Guardian Data cover in the last year? Mona Chalabi has created this New Year's present for you with our animated highlights of the year - what will 2013 bring?
The alternative Olympic medal table: the final winner? Russia
The final results are in. Who tops our Alternative Olympic medal table?
London 2012 and data journalism: what did we learn at the Olympics?
It was two weeks of elite sport, emotion - and data. So how did we deal with it and what did we learn? These are the 12 lessons we learned from London 2012
How much did each Team GB medal cost at London 2012?
An Olympic medal won by Team GB at the London 2012 Games cost an average of just over £4.5 million. Boxing was the most cost-effective sport in terms of funding per medal, with hockey the least
US athletes dominated the sprinting events at the Olympics until Beijing 2008, but the island of Jamaica has emerged as the sprinting superpower in recent years. Get the data on how the two countries compare from Barcelona 1992 through to London 2012
Ye Shiwen's extraordinary Olympic swim: a statistical analysis
Ye Shiwen swam the last 50m of her 400m individual medley final quicker than the winner of the men's race. How 'unbelievable' is this in statistical terms? Get the data
How can you show nearly 11,000 athletes from over 200 countries? This graphic visualisation was published in today's Guardian and shows how each country breaks down
London 2012: Hopes of GB volleyball quarter-final place no pipe dream
Sean Ingle at Earls Court
Sean Ingle: Britain's women may have lost against world champions Russia, but they went down with enough spirit to suggest they may just realise their Olympic ambitions of reaching the last eight
