Plantation guide progress – draft

For the guide, I’m making an interactive map showing the world trading of plantation products, I’m using coffee as my first plantation product for demonstration.

I first did a research on the data of coffee production and world market trading. I found the data on the website of United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. Here is the link to the website. https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/coffee-world-markets-and-trade

Here is a draft of the interactive map I made:

I used the mapbox api to draw the world map on the webpage. I extracted production data and trading data to make my own database. On this draft there are many circles with different sizes. The sizes of the circles represent the amount of production of coffee bean in that country.

For further development, I will make all these circles interactive. Users would be able to click on the circles, and more data showing local plantation situations will pop up. I will also try to add connection between each countries to show the trading process.