This site is about sustainable materials. This site hosts data about materials in a form inspired by wiki but with new mechanisms for the sharing and understanding of rich scientific measurements.
Linked Visualizations
Tier 1 Material Summary contains data rolled up from two more tiers of excel workbooks. Try scrubbing (hover motion) or moving (dragging) the dataset.
The 52x20 says that there are 52 rows by 20 columns. Click JSON in the footer to see how this is stored.
Click the link to the scatter chart to see an interactive visualization. The chart connects to the data through what we think of as magnetic attraction.
Tier 2 Material Scores contains individual pages for each material. The material scores can be viewed and compared with a radar chart visualization.
The 1x19 shows that the data on each page is a single row corresponding to a single row in Tier 1. There is one less column because this data does not include a rank (position within a group) until it is rolled up with other materials in Tier 1.
Each Radar Chart Axis is drawn from Tier 2 spreadsheet titles.
Publication Summaries
Within the constraints of Fair Use one could excerpt documents that may or may not be widely available when our work builds on them.
Life Cycle Inventory for Cotton for 2009 by Cotton, Inc.
Related Experiments
These sites are not specifically related to the Materials Index. Rather, they've been created to test the versatility of the federated wiki form.
How can we create an economy that effectively meets human needs while regenerating natural systems? An economy which grows organically — and fills new niches — by working with nature and enriching human capacities?
In this sample we show how we might configure a remote software-defined radio to receive and decode WWV timecodes.
We generate the following reports from flat files maintained within the SensorServer 
system with the mksensor script.