Does anyone want to help me build a beautiful supply chain map of raw materials?
Like an interactive web app that lets you trace a product back to its corresponding raw materials?
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Okay, decided on a nested-multi-pie-chart visualization. Making it happen thanks to . Hopefully the first iteration is up and running within a couple of months?
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Alright, we’re making progress! Clicking into the pies and navigating is coming soon.
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What should I call the web app?
- The Material Map20%
- Big Mass Balance40%
- What’s In It40%
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Okay, I bought a domain name and secured the Twitter handle. Decided on “What It Comes From”…
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Pretty is important! I’ve got a good feeling about the UX of clicking through nested pies.
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Hmm. Nested pies is interesting. I think I’d like both. Pies are like cross-sections of output flow bundles from a sankey production stage so you could combine via a toggle.
Also consider representing reserves/stockpiles somehow?
any ideas? Is this a d3 job?
I think Sankey tells the whole story, and nested pies just tell the critical part of the story (material history).
It’s like a family tree that just shows your bloodline (parents/grandparents) vs a family tree that shows everything (siblings/cousins/etc.).
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Your point on cross sections makes sense. Navigating through the pies works like traversing through the cross sections of pies, but just down whatever Sankey path you choose.
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one way people sometimes do nested pies is via a zoomable sunburst
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I hadn’t seen this type of visualization before, thanks for sharing!
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