Thread by @hockendougal

Sharing my summer homework:

Manifest is "an investigative toolkit for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply chains, production lines, and trade networks."

supplystudies.com/manifest/

Hoping to find others interested in working on this, teaching with this, etc. Get in touch! Expect Bugs! Big thank you to my summer research students and to @coletteperold for using an earlier prototype in her class.

Here's another preview image, showing some other visualizations.

Manifest can load a large number of supply chains, visualize by quantitative data (like water use) in an extensible visualization framework (now, graphs, chords, and flow diagrams). It can load arbitrary layers (like train routes) and supports live tracking points (like ships)

Manifest files are just simple json files-you can make them anyway you'd like. We provide a basic editor, but Manifest isn't a database. It doesn't keep any of the data people might load on it (unless you want to just, you know, manually email it to me).

Here is a picture with some shipping lines, shipping traffic, and some rail lines.

Here are some Amazon fulfillment centers (2016 data) sorted by known number of employees (left) and known square footage (right).

Here we are tracking the pesky Ever Given.

This is a map for one of those old-timey "spinning disk" hard drives.

And here's that map visualized a few other ways.