Infographic: Swimming’s Most Exciting Race, Re-Created In Pure Data

A detailed visualization of the 50-meter freestyle sprint reveals the race’s fascinating, hidden nuances.

A fluid approach to this graphing system, reminiscent of rippling water. The graph reads from left to right, with each swimmers position in the race being plotted horizontally on the graph, top being lead.

Foster reacted 6th quickest to the starting gun at 00.76secs, and Popov 7th at 00.81secs, both coming through to finish the race in first and second positions.

The smaller graph, botoom right, marks out each racers speed throughout the race.

Designed by Accept & Proceed for Planet K2.

Note that all data used in this graphic are available at:

http://www.minorisa.org/fes/dades/finabcn03/

Comments

[Raul Arellano]

Dear Mr. Wells,

As a member of the swimming competition analysis project developed during Barcelona World Swimming Championships 2003, I would like to comment that all the data that you use in the picture is in the web's page of our project. I think as you are using this data you should reference their origin in your infographic.

All the results are at:

http://www.minorisa.org/fes/dades/finabcn03/

Yours

Dr. Raul Arellano

[Greg D. Wells, Ph.D.]

Thanks Raul. Link has been added to the post.