Submarine Cable Map VS The Atlas of Economic Complexity

According to the always-fun-to-look-at submarinecablemap.com, Fiji is connected to the Southern Cross Cable, and serves as the internet hub for the region. Source: about 2 years ago

Anyway, the difference is - AWS leases single fiber pairs and rarely invests in cables while Google is known as the biggest cloud investor in subsea cables and owned (vs. leased) global infrastructure. According to submarinecablemap.com AWS co-owns 2 subsea cables while Google exclusively owns 6 and co-owns 11. Source: over 2 years ago

The Atlas of Economic Complexity - Visualize global trade data and economic growth opportunities for every country. Source: 10 months ago

The difference between countries are not that great if we're looking at broad industry groups. Going by another "economic complexity" ranking which uses a similar backend data set - https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/. Looking at each sector's proportion of export value and comparing Australia with a similar but highly ranked country like the UK (Rank 12), the standard deviation between for all sectors ratio of export... Source: about 1 year ago

Neoliberalism is a con to strip the general public of it's wealth and hand it to the rich. We don't have to make everything, but if we don't want to be reduced to an impoverished puppet state, we are going to have to increase economic complexity. See Australia vs say France. Source: over 1 year ago

I want to use this data from https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ I'm not sure which version etc given I'm new to data processing/analyses just wanted some hands on stuff. Source: over 1 year ago

Anyone who finds this interesting should check out Ricardo Hausmann's project, the Atlas of Economic Complexity. Source: about 2 years ago