1. The dataset contains information on over 270,000 athletes from 120 years of Summer and Winter Olympics with 15 attributes including name, sex, age, height, weight, team, and medal.
2. The data was cleaned by removing rows with missing values for age, height and weight. Visualizations were created to examine patterns in male and female participation over time, popular sports by gender, and participation trends in athletics events.
3. The visualizations showed that women began participating in 1920, participation declined sharply in 1980 due to a boycott, and has followed similar trends since. Athletics and cross-country skiing were most popular among both genders. Trends in athletics events showed similarities between male