Decathlon: Top performances in the Decathlon from 1985 to 2006.
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The point scoring system for the Decathlon last changed in 1985. Best annual performances of 6800 points and over for a twenty-one year period after the new rules were introduced were downloaded from the excellent Estonian website Decathlon2000. Handtimed performances were not included. Names with accents have been simplified.

1	data(Decathlon)

A data frame with 7968 observations on the following 24 variables.

Totalpoints: the total points achieved over all 10 events
DecathleteName: Decathlete's name
Nationality: Decathlete's nationality
m100: Time for the 100 metres (secs)
Longjump: Distance jumped (metres)
Shotput: Distance putting the shot (metres)
Highjump: Height jumped (metres)
m400: Time for the 400 metres (secs)
m110hurdles: Time for the 110 metres hurdles (secs)
Discus: Distance throwing the discus (metres)
Polevault: Height achieved (metres)
Javelin: Distance throwing the javelin (metres)
m1500: Time for the 1500 metres (secs)
yearEvent: Year of performance
P100m: Points for performance in 100 metres
Plj: Points for performance in long jump
Psp: Points for performance in putting the shot
Phj: Points for performance in high jump
P400m: Points for performance in 400 metres
P110h: Points for performance in 110 metres hurdles
Ppv: Points for performance in pole vault
Pdt: Points for performance in discus
Pjt: Points for performance in javelin
P1500: Points for performance in 1500 metres

http://www.decathlon2000.com

data(Decathlon, package="GDAdata")
summary(Decathlon[, grep("P.*", names(Decathlon))])
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(Decathlon, aes(Plj)) + geom_histogram()
ggplot(Decathlon, aes(P100m, Plj)) + geom_point()

   Polevault         P100m             Plj              Psp       
 Min.   :2.850   Min.   : 597.0   Min.   : 569.0   Min.   :418.0  
 1st Qu.:4.200   1st Qu.: 765.0   1st Qu.: 757.0   1st Qu.:622.0  
 Median :4.400   Median : 806.0   Median : 804.0   Median :672.0  
 Mean   :4.405   Mean   : 806.6   Mean   : 807.4   Mean   :674.6  
 3rd Qu.:4.650   3rd Qu.: 847.0   3rd Qu.: 857.0   3rd Qu.:726.0  
 Max.   :5.760   Max.   :1042.0   Max.   :1089.0   Max.   :941.0  
      Phj           P400m         P110h             Ppv              Pdt       
 Min.   : 396   Min.   :532   Min.   : 526.0   Min.   : 321.0   Min.   :231.0  
 1st Qu.: 696   1st Qu.:746   1st Qu.: 777.0   1st Qu.: 673.0   1st Qu.:600.0  
 Median : 749   Median :789   Median : 824.0   Median : 731.0   Median :655.0  
 Mean   : 749   Mean   :788   Mean   : 821.6   Mean   : 734.4   Mean   :657.8  
 3rd Qu.: 803   3rd Qu.:832   3rd Qu.: 868.0   3rd Qu.: 804.0   3rd Qu.:713.0  
 Max.   :1061   Max.   :998   Max.   :1044.0   Max.   :1152.0   Max.   :970.0  
      Pjt             P1500      
 Min.   : 330.0   Min.   :121.0  
 1st Qu.: 588.0   1st Qu.:607.0  
 Median : 644.0   Median :669.0  
 Mean   : 648.1   Mean   :661.7  
 3rd Qu.: 707.0   3rd Qu.:725.0  
 Max.   :1040.0   Max.   :946.0  
`stat_bin()` using `bins = 30`. Pick better value with `binwidth`.