For my second iteration, I redesigned Minard’s graphic using python to create a line graph with the purpose of improving clarity and understanding. This redesign includes the main datasets; number of advance and retreat survivors, temperature (℃) variation, longitude as well as the respective dates representing the campaign’s timeline of events. It can be observed in the graph that the advancing group is represented with a blue color (progress) and the retreating group with
a red color (loss), while the drop in temperature is shown with a dashed grey line. To enhance and incorporate user interaction, I have used hover features that display detailed information such as longitude, temperature, date, city and the number of survivors. The hover colors arerespective to the colors of the lines but slightly transparent to ensure visibility and readability.

Although the redesign seems technical, the data points present represent lives and experiences of the troops. The use of different colors help demonstrate the emotional aspect of the visualization, such that the audience is able to interact directly with the statistical data and connect it to distinct points in time.