# give and take Perhaps my biggest frustration living in Argentina is the lack of access to international markets. Maybe this is a fun opportunity to use some map projections. Data from [https://oec.world/en/profile/country/arg/](https://oec.world/en/profile/country/arg/) for 2017. As always, an interactive example with code snippets is available in this [Observable notebook](https://observablehq.com/@luciyer/give-or-take). ## arc view of trade relationships Line thickness determines magnitude of net exports, orange implies Argentina is a net importer, and blue implies Argentina is a net exporter. ![[media/gv1.svg]] ## lagrange projection Argentina as the center of the world. ![[media/gv2.svg]] ## trade parity How about a nice scatter plot? The diagonal implies a net trade balance of 0. ![[media/gv3.svg]] ## a more typical view ![[media/gv4.svg]]