{"id":316,"date":"2011-03-17T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T22:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/"},"modified":"2011-08-15T18:52:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T23:52:29","slug":"visualizing-commodity-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Commodity Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently processing the results of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/\">commodities<\/a> trade survey. We figured that a good way to display the results would be through a map visualization showing trade flows to and from each country represented in the survey. The image below shows one of the visualizations (click on it for a larger version).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/australiacommoditiestrade.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"commodities trade flows from Australia\" border=\"0\" alt=\"commodities trade flows from Australia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/australiacommoditiestrade_thumb.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The map shows trade flows from Australia. Lighter lines represent trade flows with a small number of deals. Darker lines are used for trade flows with larger number of deals. Stay tuned for more results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (August 15th, 2011):<\/strong> You can now play with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/commodities\/survey\/trade\/\">trade flow visualizations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Visualizing Commodity Trading' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Visualizing Commodity Trading' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Visualizing Commodity Trading' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Visualizing Commodity Trading' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/17\/visualizing-commodity-trading\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently processing the results of our commodities trade survey. 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