Project title : GDP and the Players
Project description Our project looks at GDP, Imports and Exports. When a country exports goods, it sells them to a foreign market, that is to consumers, businesses, or governments in another country. Those exports bring money into the country, which increases the exporting nation's GDP. When a country imports goods, it buys them from foreign producers. The money spent on imports leaves the economy, and that decreases the importing nations GDP.
How much of the statement above is validated by the data?
Exploring answers to this question was the focus and interest of our project.
Team members and roles
- Ankita Bhosle, - Data curation, organization & Coding
- Sydney Freidman, - Front-end Design & styling
- Aisha Kigongo, - Data curation, organization & Coding
- Brian Murphy - Front-end Design & styling
Technologies used:
- Mbostock : d3.v3.min.js
- Rickshaw : code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/examples
- TopoJSON : https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Geo-Paths
- jquery
- Worldbank Open data (Financial Indicators)
- R
- python Notebook: PANDAS
Link to demo version http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~bmurphy/IOFinal/IOlabVizProject/worldMap/
Next Steps:
- Attempt to animate the timeline through the different years
- Provide additional information about the clicked country besides exports & imports
- Make the page more responsive
Known Bugs: zoom feature is not stable and performing as desired for US & Russia.