The World Inside Our Home

The Project

This is a project built as a part of our coursework for MSc in Computational and Data Journalism at Cardiff University. It’s a work in progress.

It offers analyses and visualisations of the symbiotic relation, borne of commodities, between the UK and other countries. We focus on the things we commonly have at home from three industries: food, textile, and wood. Our analyses and visualisations were based on 10-year data, if available and whenever necessary to the analysis. At the time this project was created, the latest available data was as of 2017.

Navigate this site

Click either of the three main headings “Food,” “Textile,” or “Wood” on the homepage, and things we commonly have at home from the selected industry will be highlighted in the home image.

To see the countries that import these things into the UK on the world map, click the “Explore” link on the right. The world map shows all importing countries in 2017 for the selected industry. The lines on the map are scaled according to either import value in pounds or import volume. On the map, click any country to view a list of the import statistics from that location. Other visualisations are shown in the text.

Go back to “Home” to explore other industries.