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 ## Acknowledgments
 
-This project is heavily inspired from @danlester's [cdsdashboards](https://github.com/ideonate/cdsdashboards), without it, this project might not have existed.
+This project is heavily inspired by and uses code from @danlester's [cdsdashboards](https://github.com/ideonate/cdsdashboards), without his work building this would have been a whole lot harder.