Swimming World Records throughout History

Swimming modalities: speed throughout history

Competition of speeds Speed improvements Analytical visualization

Chronology

Mouse over the timeline to highlight information about specific records

Records per stroke and distance

Average speeds of records broken from 1900 to the beginning of 2017, by swimming modality

Men's records Women's records All records Up

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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