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25th January 2010 - Link Blog

The making of the NYT's Netflix graphic. A database dump from Netflix, some clever hackery in ArcView GIS, hpricot to scrape Metacritic and a lot of careful thought about the UI for navigating the data.

Posted 25th January 2010 at 1:11 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th January 2010.

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