The Journey of Anthony Bourdain

Another challenge we underwent last week was our own take on Makeover Monday. Week 33 (a slightly belated post) centred around the travels of the late Anthony Bourdain.

After a lot of indecision, I finally came up with this:

The next day we presented our work. Alongside Carl, we had two additional and slightly more harsh critics in the form of Ravi Mistry and Dan Haines. Thankfully, almost all of my feedback was very positive (even from Dan). However, they all unanimously agreed that I had my work a little upside down.

Following a few recommended changes to my work, this is the end result:

I definitely agree with the feedback; the few tweaks really made a difference to the overall appearance and flow of my viz.

See my viz here: https://public.tableau.com/views/TheJourneyofAnthonyBourdain/Dashboard1?:embed=y&:display_count=yes

Author:
Ellen Blackburn
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