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"It really was an experiment driven by curiosity," he tells Business Insider.

The idea was to create the ultimate image of democracy: a home built by the people, for the people.

It's called the Hemnet House, or, more affectionately, the House of Clicks. It represents the most popular specs of all houses clicked through on the site, spanning more than 86,000 listings.

Between January and October of 2014, a Swedish online housing portal called Hemnet, collected data from more than 200 million clicks, gathered from 20% of Sweden's population.

Staffan Tell, spokesperson for Hemnet, says the project was inspired by a simple and straightforward goal.

Turns out, it's simplicity with a touch of the familiar.

Looking at companies Modular Home for Sale that use big data as the bedrock of their decision making — Tell points to Netflix's model for user recommendations — Hemnet wanted to understand what the country's nine million or so citizens wanted from a house.