Trade Map Visualization

This repository holds the source code for two similar data visualizations:

International trade in goods and services based on UN Comtrade data
Commissioned by the Department for International Trade (DIT UK) in 2015.
See src/comtrade/README.md for more details.
UK Internationational trade in goods based on HMRC data
Commissioned by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) in 2018.
See src/nisra/README.md for more details.

The visualizations are closely related and share some code so they are in a shared project. The code is licenced under the GPL-3.0 licence.

Installing and running

Building and development require Git, NodeJS and NPM. See nodejs.org for installation instructions.

Clone this repository:

git clone git@github.com:mjs2020/trademap.git
cd trademap

Install dependencies

npm install

To serve the project locally in development mode:

npm run start:comtrade
# or
npm run start:nisra

The server runs on port 9000 so you can then open http://localhost:9000

To build the projects for development:

npm run build:comtrade
# or
npm run build:nisra

To deploy a dev version to now.sh run npm run release:dev:nisra or npm run release:dev:comtrade

Contacts:

Frontend:

Development tools: