For Your Economists/Geographers: Socio-economic Tectonics

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Link: Socio-economic Tectonics

 

...Borders are scaled to show a ratio of dissimilarity. The line thickness is a ratio calculated between adjacent countries. Countries that have very similar indicator values will have a ratio of 1:1. As the rates between countries increases, so the ratio between them increases. The original indicators are all normalized rates to ensure the data is on a comparative scale before the ratio is calculated...

 

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