Awesome Public Datasets – Economics: The Observatory of Economic Complexity

• Type: Themed directory entry (meta listing in Awesome Public Datasets)
• Category: Themed Directories / Economics
• Source: GitHub – awesomedata/apd-core
• Brand: awesome-public-datasets

Overview

This entry in the Awesome Public Datasets collection references MIT’s Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC). The OEC provides open data and visualizations related to global trade flows and the structure of the world economy.

Because the provided page content is mostly GitHub navigation and does not include further details, only high‑level information from the item description can be summarized here.

Features

• Meta listing in Awesome Public Datasets

  • Curated YAML entry under the Economics section of the awesomedata/apd-core repository.
  • Points users to the OEC as a notable public data source for economic research.

• Focus on global trade and economic structure

  • References a dataset and visualization platform centered on international trade data.
  • Suitable for exploring relationships between countries, products, and economic complexity.

• Open data orientation

  • Highlights that the underlying OEC resource provides open access data (subject to OEC’s own licensing/terms).

• Data visualization emphasis

  • Notes that the OEC includes visual tools to explore trade and economic networks.

Data & Coverage

(Inferred from description; exact details would require consulting the linked OEC resource directly.)

• Domain: Economics, international trade, economic complexity.
• Typical content: Country–product trade statistics and related indicators.

Pricing

• Not applicable for this entry itself. It is a free, open GitHub directory listing that merely references the external OEC resource. Any usage terms or pricing would be defined by the Observatory of Economic Complexity, not by this Awesome Public Datasets entry.