Lakenbird Launches NS Industry Distribution Viewer

 

By Ecclestia
24th November 2024

NEWS: Lakenbird, the WA Delegate of the Intergalactic Federation, has launched the 'Industry Distribution Viewer' (IDV), a new tool designed to visually represent a nation's economic makeup.  Announced on 23rd November 2024 via the NationStates forum, the IDV uses a pie chart to display the distribution of industries within a nation's economy.  Lakenbird explained their inspiration: 'I wanted a graph like the government spending one, but for which industries make up your economy, so I made a little tool to do that.'  

The IDV offers a clear and simple way to assess economic diversification and sectoral concentraiton in any given nation.  The user-friendly interface requires users to enter and submit the nation's name for the graph to be created.  Additional features include the ability to download the graph as a .png and for the text of each sector to be highlighten when the mouse is hovering over it. 

To date, the tool has been well received with largely positive feedback from members of the NationStates community.  Perishna stated: 'I'm one of those who doesn't care about stats, but damn, this is really interesting.'  Valentine Z commented 'Interesting stuff, great work! <3'

A noted shortcoming of the tool is that it doesn't include Tourism data due to the different way tourism is measured from other industrial sectors by the World Census.  Currently, tourism is measured in 'tourists per hour' rather than the overall size of the industry, as is done for other sectors.  This makes it challenging to create an equivalent figure for tourism to be measured against other industries.  This shortcoming was flagged by the tool's creator.  Efforts are underway to find a solution to this problem.  Camtropia has lodged a question with the Technical Forum to find out what the factor is that multiplies tourists per hour to NationStates Dollars (NSD).  Lakenbird has shown a willingness to update the tool with this information for tourism.

An example of the tool's output is available below.  This data is for the nation Ecclestia as of the 24th November 2024. 

You can access the 'Industry Distribution Viewer' (IDV) or NSIndustry using the links in this article.  You can view the forum threat on the IDV here.

AI Disclaimer: This article was 100% human-written and edited with assistance from ChatGPT.  Minor changes were made to improve spelling and the flow of some sentences as a result of this assistance.