Who export/import Tech to U.S most in 2018?

[collleenwang]

Pitch

I continue to see the details about U.S. international trade flows, let's see which country export/import tech to U.S most in 2018? What are these tech things?

Summary

Details

Possible headline(s): Which country export/import tech to U.S most? The data from Census lists 10 categories.

Data set(s):Since Census.gov give these a separated page, I download the data from here, https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/product/atp/2018/05/ctryatp/index.html, and I pick up several important countries.

Code repository:

Possible problems/fears/questions:

How to display them is a question? Basically, the data of everything country has both import and export info, so just display in the raw data way? Or any new way?Like this below?

Work so far

I play around to make these for fun. And I'm trying to make something else to see other info.

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[collleenwang]

I also tried an interactive radar chart to see its export and import data. But unfortunately, it doesn't display the no.

[sarahslo]

i'm not sure why in the chord diagram the us circle is one size, but the size of the export is smaller.

did you try doing this as parallel sets? there is a lot to explore in this dataset for sure. http://datavizproject.com/data-type/parallel-sets/

[xeophin]

Interesting data set, would certainly be interesting to know what is im- and exported from each country (as in: do the States import electronic parts from other, cheaper countries and then assemble them into finished products, that then are exported again?)

Aesthetically, I like the chord diagrams, but it usually takes way too long for me to understand how it is supposed to be read. So, yeah, I guess the parallel sets vis would make it a bit easier?

[hakantan]

Very interesting dataset. I don't understand the chord-stuff, takes me too long to figure out what you're trying to say. Also, in your first graphic it says that the data is from May, but that information is lost on the latter diagram. What kind of time frame are we talking about?