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It was the summer of 2016, and Derek Watkins, then a graphics editor at The New York Times, was staring down a challenge.
How could the newspaper provide coverage of Olympic events in record time for readers?
Mr. Watkins and other graphics editors decided upon what would eventually become a winning solution: a miniature version of the competitions, generated in a matter of minutes.