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The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualization site for international trade data created by the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. The goal of the observatory is to distribute international trade data in a visual form. At present the observatory serves more than 20 million interactive visualizations, connecting hundreds of countries to their export destinations and to the products that they trade.
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- ↑ "Trade Map – List of products at 2 digits level exported by India in 2022". www.trademap.org. Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- "Export Data". The Trade Vision.
- "Export Data Bank". commerce.gov.in.
- atlas.media.mit.edu – Observatory of Economic complexity – Products exported by India (2012)
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