I’m not sure what time the “new this week” counter rolls over, but I thought I’d take a moment to capture these stats from our Olympics domain:

That’s a lot of new information! Thanks to everyone who’s been plugging away at events as they occur.

Meanwhile, Spellbound has posted an interesting article about exploring Freebase’s Olympics data with Parallax:

Now lets take a real sidestep and pull up a list of sports teams who use a former Olympic facility as a venue. This is the sort of question that you could figure out on your own, but it would be a pain in the neck to do by hand.

And here’s the resulting data set:

Spellbound also suggests some other interesting data sets to explore, like “people who went to schools that have birds as mascots”.