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Doing Business Trading Across Borders and Logistics Performance Index:...
People who look at the Doing Business report’s Trading Across Borders indicator and the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) often wonder why one country can perform well on one of the rankings but not...
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Things to do with Trade and Competitiveness Data… thank you API
Who are Spain's neighbors? Is Canada closer to Spain than Portugal? What about Estonia or Greece? The answer? Depends on the data you are looking at! Earlier this week I crunched data based on a...
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From data blur to slow-mo clarity: big data in trade and competitiveness
Tolstoy's War and Peace was the big data of its time. A memorable moment from the epic novel occurs when Prince Andrei awakens following a severe injury on the battlefield. He fears the worst but,...
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Introducing Data360R — data to the power of R
Last January 2017, the World Bank launched TCdata360 (tcdata360.worldbank.org/), a new open data platform that features more than 2,000 trade and competitiveness indicators from 40+ data sources...
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Interactive product export streamgraphs with data360r (now in CRAN!)
Building beautiful, interactive charts is becoming easier nowadays in R, especially with open source packages such as plot.ly, ggplot2 and leaflet. But behind the scenes, there is an often untold,...
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Tracing the roots of TCdata360 datasets: an interactive network graph
When doing data analysis, it's common for indicators to take the spotlight whereas datasets usually take the backseat as an attribution footnote or as a metadata popup.However, we often forget how...
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