[open-economics] Failed banks on timeline

Fri Jan 4 14:54:48 UTC 2013

This is fantastic Anders! :-)

It would be great to blog about this on the Open Economics blog or the main
OKFN blog to solicit for further input. Do you have any plans to do this?
If not, might you be willing to put a paragraph or two together? ;-)

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Anders Pedersen <anderspeders at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I hope you have all had a happy new year.
>
> A few months back Timeliner (http://timeliner.okfnlabs.org) was
> introduced as a tool for enabling easy development of timelines. As a
> major advance it allows us to build a timeline based on a dynamic
> googledoc.
>
> I took the time today to put the Failed bank data into Timeliner and
> add a few updates. You will find it below (you might need refresh the
> link a few times in order to ensure that the data and the map display
> properly):
>
> http://timeliner.okfnlabs.org/?backend=gdocs&url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkitojFFyvjCdHBlbmVIUEVKTF9VcjF5bzdpcURUTlE%23gid=0#explorer
>
> As I had to do a bit of formatting of our bank data, I created a new
> googledoc (see below), which serves as the backend to the timeline.
> All changes you make to this sheet, will be reflected directly in the
> timeline:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkitojFFyvjCdHBlbmVIUEVKTF9VcjF5bzdpcURUTlE#gid=0
>
> Due to the format requirements of Timeliner, I have added a few
> columns to the data:
> - Latitude/longitude: has been added (extracted from city, country).
> Notice that many banks (particular for Italy, Portugal and UK) are
> only identified by country, which makes it difficult to extract
> precise coordinates on the map in Timeliner. Thus any updates on bank
> locations would be great
> - Description: Some banks have an attached description in the sheet,
> which appear as the main text in the timeline. We still need to add
> additional descriptions and sources, so if you have time please go
> ahead.
>
> Finally we will need to decide regarding the next steps: Should we
> bring all data (assets, auditors, bank type) on to the googledoc
> serving as the backend for the timeliner and how can we add this
> information in a meaningful way?
>
> All the best,
> Anders
>
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