A Data Driven Network Approach To Rank Countries Production Diversity And Food Specialization

This file explains the database, that can be freely downloaded, used in the work A data driven network approach to rank food complexity and countries production diversity?(arXiv:1606.01270v1) by Chengyi Tu, Joel Carr and Samir Suweis. If you use the data, please cite the article. The file OrganizeData.xlsx includes bipartite adjacency matrix, both binary (b) and weighted (w) in tons of food, describing the food commodities produced (country-product), imported (country-import) and exported (country-export) by the considered countries from the year 1992 to the year 2011. GDP data are easily available from UN (http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=WDI&f=Indicator_Code%3ANY.GDP.MKTP.CD) or worldbank (http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD) website. From these data the results on the Minimum Spanning Forest and on the country fitness and food specialization can be reproduced.