The Observatory of Economic Complexity is a tool that allows users to quickly compose a visual narrative about countries and the products they exchange. It was Alexander Simoes' Master Thesis in Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. website 
The Product Space Conditions the
Development of Nations. César Hidalgo, et al. pdf
Through a computational trick of network analysis the observatory has translated trade data collected for decades into competency dependency data that is more to the point when predicting economic growth.