Free Trade Agreement Visualisation
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FTAVis (www.ftavis.com) is a tool to make the complexity of the world’s trade agreements visible, accessible and understandable. The project visualizes 789 trade agreements from 205 countries over t...
he last 66 years.
Currently, the controversial agreement TTIP appears more and more in the press. It would be the first far-reaching free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States of America and the European Union. Even though Europe has been very active at deepening its economic ties worldwide over the last 66 years, the USA have signed only 17 deep agreements with American and Asian countries.
FTAVis also reveals that Asia has been getting closer and closer to the forefront of free trade agreements over the last 10 years. Could that be a sign for the development of a new strong bloc against the two giant trading blocs of Europe and North America? Who are the economically most engaged countries in Asia anyway? Why are they dramatically signing trade agreements since the 1990s?
This is one of many thousands of stories illustrated in FTAVis, a series of dense data visualizations that attempt to track the history of free trade agreements.
FTAVis is the first project which investigates global trade over such a long time span, using the recently published data set of the World Trade Institute in Bern. It is a valuable tool both for economists, as well as journalists and freely accessible to the public.
The project was carried out by the GED Project Team of the Bertelsmann Foundation with the help of data visualisation designer Sebastian Sadowski and data analyst Dr. Tobias Pfaff.
The project is nominated for the Design Award 2016 of the Federal Republic of Germany.
There is also a "Making-of-Story" available at medium.com/@ahoiin/crafting-a-custom-mobile-friendly-data-visualization-cb91a3024064
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