Incredible work! Kudos! On 2013-07-12, at 4:02 AM, Seb Bacon wrote:
> Hi open data fans, > > Thought you might be interested to see the new corporate network data > we've been working on at OpenCorporates. Feedback is very welcome. > > Network data (i.e. who controls whom) is really important for > understanding how the international corporate world operates. One > obvious benefit, which is in the news right now, is that it will help > track tax avoidance schemes, but there are lots of other reasons too: > better regulation, better understanding of systemic risk, and so on. > > Here are some cool maps we've made showing some US banks [1]. They > show complete networks as we know them for each bank. > > Those need generating for each network. Our standard on-the-fly > network exploration maps (e.g. [2] - select "show data as network") > only show sections of a network at once. Click a node to recentre the > graph on it, and continue exploring > > It's all available as open data, including the provenance for each > fact (e.g. [3]) > > We've written a blog post about this effort [4] and will be writing > some more about the tech details in the coming weeks. > > Thanks, > > Seb > > [1] http://opencorporates.com/viz/financial/ > [2] http://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/1040796/network > [3] http://opencorporates.com/placeholders/648157/statements/relationships > [4] > http://blog.opencorporates.com/2013/07/11/open-corporate-network-data-not-just-good-but-better/ > > -- > skype: seb.bacon > mobile: 07790 939224 > land: 01531 671074 > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/james%40opennorth.ca _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
