[open-economics] Failed banks on timeline

Mon Jan 14 12:46:28 UTC 2013

Excellent work!

If you haven't seen Anders' blog post yet, here it is:
http://openeconomics.net/2013/01/07/timeline-of-failed-european-banks/

Cc-ing Labs here - the timeliner fails to load a few rows because of some
mistake, does anybody know what those problems might be and how to fix
them? I guess there is a way to embed this particular timeline in a webpage
with iframe code?

Thank you

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Anders Pedersen <anderspeders at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great,
>
> I will put up a post on the Open Economics blog.
>
> Best,
> Anders
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
> wrote:
> > 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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