Makeover Monday: The Monthly Latitude Range of Solar Eclipses by Century

• Fantastic interactivity and drill down capabilities
• Showing the paths of each eclipse along with the partial eclipse breadth
• Coloring each eclipse type
• Leveraging Google Maps so the user can customize the map to their preference
• Good explanations above and below the chart

• Remove the labels on each line to declutter the map
• Avoid a repeating map
• Include a more impactful title

• Explore the data to find some interesting analysis per Eva's request
• Build lots of views to see what pops
• Simplify the view to reduce complexity and clutter
• Compare northern to southern hemisphere
• Use colors that are clearly distinguishable

As I mentioned, I really struggled. I built lots of view and probably hit undo 200 times. I didn't like anything. I sent a few complaining messages to Eva and she essentially told me to suck it up. Tough love indeed!

Finally, I decide to create a calculation to aggregate by century and then created an LOD to return the max and min latitude in any given month within the century. By any given month, I don't mean month/year, I mean month. So what is the average of all Januarys, Februarys, etc. and then what is the max of those values. I then compared that to max to the min to determine the range.

I don't love it, but I'm done. I've struggled enough.