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CreditsSheet of record

Data sources and how this site was built.

Every dataset on this site, with its source, link, period and licence. Then the libraries and fonts, then how the pages and checks are made. The data is public. None of it is my business's.

01Datasets

Seventeen sources, placed on the licence each one comes with.

Pick a source on the ruler to find its row. Licences are copied from what the publisher states and recorded in the data files; where I could not read a publisher's own terms, the row says so.

RulerLicences, most open to most restricted

    Select a source to see where it sits.

    • UCI Online Retail II

      Chen, D. (2012), UCI Machine Learning Repository. A real UK online gift retailer, not my business.

      archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/502/online+retail+ii

      Period

      1 Dec 2009 to 9 Dec 2011 (invoice dates)

      Licence

      CC BY 4.0As listed by the repository.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
      • Globe hub
    • US e-commerce share of retail sales

      US Census Bureau, Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales, cross-checked with FRED series ECOMPCTSA.

      www.census.gov/retail/ecommerce.html

      Period

      1999 Q4 to 2026 Q2 (2026 Q2 preliminary)

      Licence

      Public domainUS federal government work; cite the Census Bureau. FRED redistributes the same series.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Retailers inventories to sales ratio

      US Census Bureau, Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales, via FRED (RETAILIRSA and ISRATIO).

      fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RETAILIRSA

      Period

      Jan 1992 to Jul 2026 (July preliminary)

      Licence

      Public domain, citation requestedWording from the FRED series page; suggested citation is kept with the data.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Global Supply Chain Pressure Index

      Federal Reserve Bank of New York, GSCPI. Re-estimated every release; the stored history is the October 2026 vintage.

      www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/gscpi

      Period

      Jan 1998 to Sep 2026

      Licence

      New York Fed Terms of UseCopying and modifying allowed on conditions, with the credit line and no implied endorsement.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Port of Los Angeles container statistics

      Port of Los Angeles, Container Statistics (Historical TEU Statistics). Port of Los Angeles only, not Long Beach.

      www.portoflosangeles.org/business/statistics/container-statistics

      Period

      Jan 2015 to Aug 2026 (monthly)

      Licence

      Free of charge, credit the portStated on the port page; the port gives no formal licence text.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
      • Globe layer
    • Listing of Active Businesses, City of Los Angeles

      City of Los Angeles Open Data, Office of Finance (dataset 6rrh-rzua), plus Census Gazetteer ZIP code points for coordinates.

      data.lacity.org/Administration-Finance/Listing-of-Active-Businesses/6rrh-rzua

      Period

      Snapshot of active registrations, Sep 15, 2026

      Licence

      CC0 1.0Read from the dataset metadata. Registrations, not sales. Gazetteer files are US federal government works.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Business Trends and Outlook Survey, AI questions

      US Census Bureau, BTOS AI Core Questions and AI Supplement. Survey estimates with sampling error.

      www.census.gov/hfp/btos/data

      Period

      Sep 2023 to Sep 2026 (as of Sep 22, 2026)

      Licence

      US Government data, no separate licence statedShown exactly as the publisher states it.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025

      Stack Overflow. Respondents are its own self-selected audience.

      survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

      Period

      Fielded May 29 to Jun 23, 2025

      Licence

      ODbL 1.0As listed by the publisher.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Consumer Complaint Database, student loans

      Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, student-loan complaints from January 2023.

      www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/consumer-complaints

      Period

      Jan 2023 to Sep 2026 (as of Oct 5, 2026)

      Licence

      CC0As stated in the CFPB complaint API metadata; data.gov lists no licence.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • Marketing Funnel by Olist

      Olist, on Kaggle, joined with the Olist orders data. 8,000 anonymised, randomly sampled leads.

      www.kaggle.com/datasets/olistbr/marketing-funnel-olist

      Period

      Leads Jun 2017 to May 2018

      Licence

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Non-commercial and share-alike. Used here for a public portfolio analysis, with credit.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • California DGStats interconnected applications

      California DGStats (PG&E, SCE, SDG&E and the CPUC), SCE 5-year export. Published here only as summary tables.

      www.californiadgstats.ca.gov/downloads

      Period

      Sep 2021 to Aug 2026 (as of Aug 31, 2026)

      Licence

      No open licence; publisher terms of use applySouthern California Edison territory only.

      Used for

      • Dashboard
    • International trade by port, imports by country

      US Census Bureau, International Trade, port-level imports by country: Los Angeles (port 2704) and New York plus Newark (ports 1001 and 1003).

      www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/international-trade.html

      Period

      12 months to Aug 2026

      Licence

      Public domainUS Government work.

      Used for

      • Globe hub
    • Netherlands imports by partner country

      Eurostat Comext DS-045409, the Rotterdam gateway. The whole Netherlands, not Rotterdam alone.

      ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/product/page/DS-045409

      Period

      Calendar year 2025

      Licence

      Free reuse with source acknowledgementCommission Decision 2011/833/EU. Not independently re-read on the Eurostat site.

      Used for

      • Globe hub
    • Merchandise exports by market, Singapore

      SingStat Table Builder M451521 (data source: Enterprise Singapore).

      tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M451521

      Period

      Sep 2025 to Aug 2026 (updated Sep 17, 2026)

      Licence

      Singapore Open Data Licence v1.0Attribution required. SingStat Table Builder terms could not be read, so the licence on this table is not confirmed.

      Used for

      • Globe hub
    • Brazilian E-Commerce Public Dataset by Olist

      Olist, on Kaggle. Orders with a seller in the state of São Paulo.

      www.kaggle.com/datasets/olistbr/brazilian-ecommerce

      Period

      2 Oct 2016 to 3 Sep 2018

      Licence

      CC BY-NC-SA 4.0Non-commercial and share-alike.

      Used for

      • Globe hub
    • Global Findex Database, bought something online

      World Bank, indicator fin26b (age 15 and over). The 2024 round covers mainly low and middle income economies; higher income ones show 2021.

      www.worldbank.org/en/publication/globalfindex

      Period

      2024 round (2021 where only 2021 exists)

      Licence

      CC BY 4.0World Bank Open Data terms; not re-read on the Findex catalog page.

      Used for

      • Globe layer
    • Natural Earth country outlines, 110m

      Natural Earth, redistributed as TopoJSON in the world-atlas package, drawn with topojson-client.

      www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use

      Period

      Version 4.1.0 in world-atlas

      Licence

      Public domainRead on the Natural Earth terms page: no permission or credit needed; credited here anyway.

      Used for

      • Map

    Public data, not my business

    02Libraries and fonts

    What the pages are drawn with.

    Versions are the ones this build loads. Licences were checked at each project's own repository or package page on October 7, 2026.

    • three.js

      threejs.org

      Used for

      The 3D globe and the rocket.

      Licence

      MIT

      Version

      Version 0.180.0

    • GSAP and ScrollTrigger

      gsap.com/standard-license

      Used for

      Scroll-driven motion and pinning.

      Licence

      GSAP Standard "no charge" licence

      Version

      Version 3.15.0

    • Apache ECharts

      echarts.apache.org

      Used for

      Charts on the dashboard.

      Licence

      Apache-2.0

      Version

      Version 6.0.0

    • Used for

      Live SQL on the live dashboard, run in your browser.

      Licence

      MIT

      Version

      Version 1.29.0

    • Used for

      Turns the map data into shapes for the globe.

      Licence

      ISC

      Version

      Version 3.1.0

    • Used for

      Country outlines for the globe.

      Licence

      ISC (the package); Natural Earth data is public domain

      Version

      Natural Earth 110m

    • Used for

      Text and display type.

      Licence

      SIL Open Font License 1.1

      Version

      Variable, via Google Fonts

    • Used for

      Labels and data.

      Licence

      SIL Open Font License 1.1

      Version

      Variable, via Google Fonts

    03How it is built

    Static pages, Python scripts, and checks against the source.

    1. 1 · DownloadA script fetches the file or API response from the publisher and keeps the raw download.
    2. 2 · CleanThe same script removes what the publisher says to remove, and records every step and count.
    3. 3 · WriteIt writes JSON, and parquet for the SQL, with the label "Public data, not my business". No number is typed by hand.
    4. 4 · CheckI re-run it from a fresh download, compare with the old output, recompute values from the raw columns, compare with the publisher's own release, and confirm each source link opens.
    5. 5 · DrawThe page reads the JSON and draws the charts. Each one names its source, period and licence.

    The pages

    Static HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with no framework. The same nav, footer, search palette and small set of mission-style parts are shared across pages. Light and dark themes both work, and motion is turned down for people who ask for it. Visits are counted without cookies, and the totals are public on the Site stats page.

    The data

    Python scripts, one per dataset, in the data folders next to the JSON they write. The checks and what each one found are written down in VERIFY.md, including the problems found in publishers' own tables.

    The sun on the home page

    The light on the globe and the local sunrise and sunset are computed in your browser from the date and the hub's position.

    The tools

    Designed and built with help from AI tools (Claude), with every number checked against its primary source.

    04Contact

    Found something wrong? Tell me.

    Open to e-commerce, data and operations roles. Los Angeles or remote.