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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: metacritic</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/metacritic.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2010-01-25T13:11:50+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>The making of the NYT's Netflix graphic</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/25/nyt/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2010-01-25T13:11:50+00:00</published><updated>2010-01-25T13:11:50+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2010/Jan/25/nyt/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.snd.org/2010/01/nyt-netflix-graphic/"&gt;The making of the NYT&amp;#x27;s Netflix graphic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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.


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