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Treemaps for 10 Countries:
the impact of political events on others' impression of a country

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Note: This visual specifically focuses on 10 countries and is composed of two parts: three treemaps and an event table. These components together allow viewers to compare countries in the three dimensions and possibly discover the reasons for these variations by refering to the political events described in the table.The reason to use a treemap is largely due to the effect of globalization. Nowadays, the change in a country's political environment can also affect another country in various ways. Treemaps can incorporate this interdependent relationship and summarize the relative change via color and size.

Instructions:
1. This is the second component of this visualization project. It allows viewers to go through important political events happened during each time period across 10 countries, and check their impact on economic indicators including Foreign Direct Investment, International Toursim (Arrivals), and Immigration Stock.
2. The treemaps below compare total target value in 5 years across the 10 target countries. You can refer to the table below to discover different political events that have taken place in each of the four time periods. If you want to see the treemaps corresponding to the time period in the table, simply click the button and it will update the treemaps with the corresponding ones.
Note that the default treemaps shown below are for the time period 1995-1999. A orange cell indicate an increase while the blue one means a drop in the value. Additionally, for the treemaps that only have positive values, the higher the value is, the darker the color it will be.

Total Foreign Direct Investment (in billions) in these 5 years

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Total Immigration Stock in these 5 years

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Total International Tourism, Arrivals in these 5 years

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Time Period Australia China France Germany India Italy Japan Russia United Kingdom United States
1996:Federal Election: Liberal John Howard (Prime Minister) 1997: Regain Hong Kong's sovereignty 1995: Jacques Chirac begins his term as President 1998: Gerhard Schroder of the SPD became chancellor 1996: Hindu nationalist BJP emerges as largest single party 1996: Romano Prodi becomes Prime Minister 1999: 1997: Severe recession 1996: Russian presidential election: Yeltsin 1999: 1997: Labour Party wins and Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister 1999: 1995: U.S. federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996
1997: Expelled Liberal MP forms the One Nation Party 1998: Zhu Rongji becomes China's Premier 1998: Introduction of euro 1998: BJP forms coalition government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee 1999: Italy is accepted in the eurozone 1999: Vladimir Putin becomes Prime Minister of Russia 1996: U.S. presidential election: Bill Clinton is reelected to a second term
1999: Motion of Reconciliation Initiation of "Project Yangtze" 1999: Boris Yeltsin resigns and Prime Minister Putin becomes acting president
2000: Introduction of Goods and Services Tax 2002: Hu Jintao becomes head of the Communist Party 2004: A law bans "conspicuous" religious symbols in schools 2002: Physical Euro currency was introduced 2001: Vajpayee's BJP party declines his offer to resign 2001: Berlusconi's second term as Prime Minister begins 2001: Junichiro Koizumi becomes new LDP leader and Prime Minister 2000: Presidential election: Putin is elected President 2001: George W. Bush becomes President
2001: Federal election: John Howard (PM) 2003: Hu Jintao is elected as President 2004: Manmohan Singh becomes Prime Minister 2004: Presidential election: Putin wins re-election 2002: The US Department of Homeland Security is created
2004: Federal election: John Howard (PM)) 2004: Presidential election: President George W.Bush is reelected
2007: Federal election: Kevin Rudd becomes Prime Minister 2008: Wen Jiabao accepts responbility for milk scandal 2007: Nicolas Sarkozy begins his term as President 2005: Angela Merkel of the CDU became Chancellor 2007: Pratibha Patil becomes first woman to be elected President 2006: Prodi's second term as Prime Minister begins 2006: Shinzo Abe succeeds Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister 2008: Russian presidential election: Dmitry Medvedev wins 2005: Tony Blair elected to third term 2006: The Democratic Party regains control of both houses of Congress
2008: Formal apology for the Stolen Generations 2008: Introduction of a $596 billion economic stimulus package 2009: German federal election: the SPD lost seventy-six seats 2009: Resounding general election victory gives governing Congress-led alliance of PM Manmohan Singh an enhanced position in parliament 2008: Berlusconi's third term as Prime Minister begins 2007: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigns, and is replaced by Yasuo Fukuda 2007: Democrat Nancy Pelosi becomes the first femalw to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
2008: First female to assume office as Governor-General 2009: Parliament approves law criminalising illegal immigration and allowing citizens' patrols 2008: Yasuo Fukuda resigns; former minister Taro Aso becomes new Premier 2008: Presidential election: Barack Obama becomes the 44th President
2009: DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama is elected as Prime Minister
2010: Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister 2010:Xi Jinping becomes a Vice Chariman of the party's Central Military Commission 2010: A law to ban face covering from public space is passed 2010: European debt crisis 2011: Trinamool Congress and Congress alliance come to power in West Bengal 2011: Prime Minister Berlusconi wins key confidence vote over his handling of the economy 2010: PM Hatoyama quits and Finance Minister Naoto Kan takes over 2012: Russian presidential election: Vladimir Putin wins 2010: David Cameron becomes prime minister 2010: The PPACA is signed into law by President Obama
2010: Federal election: Julias Gillard wins; Liberal Ken Wyatt becomes the first Aboriginal elected to the Australian House of Representatives 2012: Vice-President Xi Jinping taks over as party chief and assumes the presidency in March 2013 2012: Francois Hollande begins his term as President 2013: Federal election: the FDP failed to meet the electoral threshold 2012: Pranab Murkherjee becomes the 13th President 2011: Berlusconi resigns and Mario Monti forms government of technocrats 2011: PM Naoto Kan steps down and is succeeded by Yoshihiko Noda 2014: Referendum on Scottish Independence 2010: Senate elections: The Republican Party gains 5 seats
2013: Gillard resigns from parliament and Rudd becomes the Prime Minister 2013: Xi Jinping becomes the President 2013: Same-sex marriage becomes legal in France 2014: Narendra Modi elected as Prime Minister of India 2013: Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President and Enrico Letta of the Democratic Party becomes prime minister 2012: Opposition conservative LDP wins landslide in early elections; former PM Shinzo Abe forms government 2010: House of Representatives elections: The Republican Party gains 62 seats (absolute majority)
2013: Federal election: Tony Abbott becomes the 28th Prime Minister 2013: Former senior leader Bo Xilai is sentenced to life in prison for bribery, embezzlememt and abuse of power 2014: Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns and Matteo Renzi forms a new left-right coalition government 2013: PM Abe's coalition wins upper house elections, giving him control of both houses 2012:Presidential election: Barack Obama is reelected as President
2014: In national elections, Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate and maintain a majority in the House of Representatives