Supercharged Road Trip Photo Album

After taking a road trip, most people are less than eager to develop their photos (or download them). A select few may download them and post them to their blog or flickr. But only Dave Ward has used Tableau Public to create an interactive "see what I saw when I was here" app. Click into the image below to link out to the live viz.

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This is not as hard as it is awesome. First, Dave created a webpage for each day of his roadtrip with the images and text he wanted to show for each one. Most importantly, he edited their urls to follow a predictable pattern. In other words, the page with photos of Day 1 is http://dwboygenius.com.../myroadtrip/1. That way, he could write the hyperlink action as http://dwboygenius.com.../myroadtrip/Day, so it updates with each click. This makes me want to take a road trip.