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Open Financial Data - World Bank

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I really don't know how to say this without using a !%^&* word.

Anybody tried to view the data on a small netbook screen? or on an older 1024x768 screen you would expect to be much more present in developing countries (those places the WB claims to try to help)?

About half of my netbook screen is filled up by the fixed WB header (does not scroll). The footer and article header, that are fixed too, take up another 20% of the screen height. For the actual data graphic, there is about 30% of the screen height left, and the graphic legend uses 29.9% of it.

The actual data is not readable. Thanks, WB! Way to go.

[Rant: Stop using fixed unless there is a really really really good reason for it! (Can you hear me Google? New Gmail interface hint hint)...]

A quick and dirty workaround for fellow netbook users -- enter this into the URL bar (too lazy/disinterested to bother with a greasemonkey script just now).

javascript:var e=document.getElementById("siteHeader");e.parentNode.removeChild(e);e=document.getElementById("siteFooter");e.parentNode.removeChild(e);void(0);

Hit F11 a couple of times if the data doesn't automatically resize to fit the screen.

(via http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata/comments/ioge5/data_on_worl... )

thanks for the pointer, http://www.reddit.com/r/opendata looks interesting.

I have to commend their opening of the data. I don't like what the data says, but at least we have the data to look at. I can't fathom that the US would pay $1.5B in contributions in 2010 with our deficit problems and rapidly increasing debt to GDP levels.

Hopefully this is a trend and we can get the Fed on board with similar openness. Access to the information will help everyone have more intelligent conversations about what these entities are doing.

I would hope that when our budget deficit is measured in the trillions that our Congress doesn't look to World Bank contributions as the first thing to cut.

The WB is a form of foreign aid. I'd think it's really one of the lower things on the list, especially when its overall impact on the deficit would be so small.

EDIT: Additionally, the Fed releases quite a bit of data, including their balance sheet. What else would you like ot see them report?

On any visualization page, hit the "Toggle Full Screen" button (on the right of the "Find in this dataset" search button) - that should solve it. Also see this FAQ: https://finances.worldbank.org/page/faqs#scroll

What % of world population have bank accounts?

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