Map the Banks

	Map the Banks shows companies licensed to carry out financial activities all over the world
Home page	http://mapthebanks.com/
Approach	Mapthebanks is partially built on Open Corporates data and uses scrapers in order to map the financial flows between countries, between financial actors (creditors, banks etc.) and shed light on the relationships of dependecy.
Phase	Beta version
Tags	banking, world, debts, financial flows, crowdsourced data, and geodata
Partners	Open North, Civio, and Open Corporates

Thematic Focus	Finance
Issue addressed	Tracing financial flows
Geographic Focus	World

Experience

How does a user interact with and navigate the project?

Geographic Map	true

Description

Summary of the project and its approach

	Collects, publishes & links data to the compagnies to give us a global picture of the finance sector and the financial flows between countries.
Approach (How?)	Mapthebanks is partially built on Open Corporates data and uses scrapers in order to map the financial flows between countries, between financial actors (creditors, banks etc.) and shed light on the relationships of dependecy.
Language	English
Publisher	Open Corporates

Impact

Indicators of reach and impact of the project.

Target Audience : Online Audience Reached : Small Network Twitter : ( followers) Publisher's Twitter Followers : Online Rank : Google: Alexa: 22351884 OSE Domain Authority Rank: 24 /100 Marketing Grader Rank: 58/100 () Online Rank (Publisher) : Google: Alexa: News Source : Some Offline Audience Reached : Outcome : Last updated : Oct 8, 2015 Attempts against the project : /

Technology

What tools and code were used to create the project?

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Team

Team size and expertise

Team Size : Medium Team Experience : Research : Outsourced Data Science : Outsourced Engineering : Dedicated Design : Dedicated

Project Methodology

What strategies were in place for managing the project?

Project Methodology : Agile Open Source : false Open Data : true Budget : Small Project Contracting : Single Delivery Risk Planning : No planning Sustainability Planning : Updated

Documented Practices

Documentation about project practices

Practices

How projects handle different aspects of data management

Data Modeling : Relational Ethical Collection : No guidelines Ethical Storage : Data Collection : Trained Collectors Data Collection : Data Verification : Corroborated Data Cleaning : Data Analysis : Classification / Tagging / Categories / Linking Data Description : Basic Data Licensing : Open Ethical Publishing : Cited Sources Ethical Publishing : Data Publishing Mode : API