Global Trade Spectrum : WTO Merchandise Trade Visualization using Bokeh

This research paper was completed in fulfillment of requirements for the Data Visualization course as a part of the Master’s in Data Science program at Indiana University-Bloomington in May 2019. We are proposing here to build a visualization that can illustrate merchandise trade transactions over the years as per data collected by WTO. We describe our visualization as Global Trade Spectrum as it will provide 360 views of all transactions in different categories of trades.The data is visualized by 3 different charts-Line chart,GeoMap and Heatmap covering aspects of trending,display of worldmap and identify data patterns providing understanding of evolution of Global trade and factors influencing it since 1947. Bokeh was used to visualize the charts as it provides elegant and concise mechanism to plot highly complex chart and figure