Swimming World Records throughout History

Swimming World Records: a race against time

Competition of speeds Speed improvements Analytical visualization

Record times per type of race, country and continent

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Aug 18, 1902

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0:0:0.00:3:20.00:6:40.00:10:0.00:13:20.00:16:40.00:20:0.00:23:20.050 m freestyle50 m backstroke50 m breaststroke50 m butterfly100 m freestyle100 m backstroke100 m breaststroke100 m butterfly200 m freestyle200 m backstroke200 m breaststroke200 m butterfly200 m individual medley400 m freestyle400 m individual medley4 x 100 m freestyle relay4 x 100 m medley relay800 m freestyle4 x 200 m freestyle relay1500 m freestyle

About this project

This project is part of the master thesis 'Movements and Transformations' about the role that motion plays in visualizations. You can learn more about it here

The data came from the list of world records in swimming set in long course, provided by Wikipedia.

Author: Irene de la Torre Arenas

Thesis Advisor: Pedro Cruz

MFA Information Design and Visualization

Northeastern University | April 2017

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