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+# Formula 1 data visualization project
+This project contains a stand-alone website that can be viewed using any basic webserver.
+The webserver is required since the website uses AJAX requests to load the data provided in the `data` folder of this project.
+
+## How to use
+* Clone this repository anywhere you want
+* Use `run.sh` to launch the SimpleHTTPServer provided by python2 (or use any other webserver you like)
+* Point your browser to http://localhost:8000 (or where your webserver lives) and enjoy the view.
+
+## Where did you get the data?
+We got the data from http://ergast.com/mrd/ (Thanks a lot to the beautiful people running that website!)
+