[InInteraction]

Hi my name is Natalia, and I'm the creator of this visualization. I want to thank the person who posted it here, and everyone for the discussion. I'd love to hear topics/ideas you are interested in for the future visualizations.

[rawland]

Thank you for the great visualizations! Here some ideas:

Personally, I would be interested in sensitivities instead of absolute values to capture trends. Say,

    * the rate of change of CO2 production per country
    * ...sensitivities of your given interactions

or

    * money invested in reforestation
    * change of healthcare expenses per country over time...
    * expenses for "bio" products vs. "discount"/fast food

Thanks again, and have fun! :-)

[InInteraction]

WOW, thank you for this - brilliant ideas - and I personally love the topics which means a lot of inspiration while creating for me. Thanks again. Cheers, Natalia

[kpil]

Hi.

Nice! I think it would be nice to be able to group and cluster the countries, rather than just sort them by name. Either geopolitical clusters based on the data, or just by region might make it easier to spot some interesting connections.

[InInteraction]

Thanks - it's a great idea. I'm not sure about geopolitical connections, but geographical clusters would make sense.

[blumkvist]

Hi Natalia. Where did you get the data? Bulgaria's export shows 6m, but a quick google search shows 300m euros for 2014, up from 260 in 2011.

[InInteraction]

Data source is SIPRI Arms Transfers Database http://www.sipri.org/databases/armstransfers (the link for the data source is always given below all data visualizations). The latest data available is for the year 2013.

Accoutring to SIPRI exports from Bulgaria in 2013 was US$ 6M, you can check it here http://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/values.php.

Please keep in mind that figures are expressed in US$ m. at constant (1990) prices.