Monday, January 25, 2010

Very cool graphic on Netflix rentals

If you haven't seen the sweet interactive graphic that the New York Times posted about Netflix rentals, you should check it out. Unfortunately, they had to narrow down their data, so they only posted 12 metropolitan areas. (D.C. is included, as is Chicago; but St. Louis isn't.)

I spent a little time figuring it out before I realized how great it was. I think it's neat how in the D.C. area you can see huge differences in the rental of certain movies (such as it's rented much more in D.C. itself versus the suburbs, etc.)

Also, Will at Journerdism posted this link to a Society for News Design article by former Post-Dispatch intern Kevin Quealy explaining how some of the decisions for the graphic were made.

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