jesrah / howmanybees

A d3 visualization of the numbers of bees needed to grow major US crops

howmanybees

Just how many bees does it take to grow your favorite fruit, anyway?

Honeybees contribute $15 billion annually to the value of crops through pollination in the United States. This information design project analyzed the actual number of bees it takes to produce some of the most important crops in our country.

Adapted from Mike Bostock's Clustered Force Layout III.

Usage

To start server:

npm run start

To run webpack:

npm run build

Requirements

• Node (v6.13.0)
• ExpressJS
• React
• React-DOM
• Webpack
• Babel CLI
• MongoDB
• Mongoose
• d3 (v5+)

Installing Dependencies

From within the root directory:

npm install