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The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe.
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Built by Owen Cornec, mentoring and concept by Romain Vuillemot.

The globe of economic complexity dynamically maps out the entire world production of goods to create an economic landscape of countries around the globe.

The Globe is built upon The Atlas of Economic Complexity, a powerful interactive tool that enables users to visualize a country’s total trade, track how these dynamics change over time and explore growth opportunities for more than a hundred countries worldwide.
For any given country, The Atlas shows which products are produced and exported; The Atlas can then use this information to suggest products a country could begin manufacturing in order to fuel economic growth.
It is available at: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu

CID is a university-wide research center housed at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Learn more here: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/

This project will be featured at the 2015 IEEE VIS conference in Chicago.
Read our poster here.

Product and trade data generated with CID's 2012 world export data, originally from the United Nations Comtrade database.

This visualization was built with webGL, a new graphics library that enables to create new 3D worlds in the browser. We used Three.js, a javascript library to streamline creating and editing 3D objects.
The code can be viewed in our Github repository

For any issues, questions or inquiries, read our FAQ or send your thoughts to atlas.cid.harvard@gmail.com

We would like to thank Marcela Escobari, Ricardo Hausmann, Gus Wezerek, Tim Cheston and Greg Shapiro for their insight and support. Icons: Cube Divisions, Earth, World by Juan Pablo Bravo, Molecule by Swaty Shah, Coins by Ramakrishna Venkatesan, Subsystem by Alex Tai from the Noun Project