Simon Willison’s Weblog

The making of the NYT's Netflix graphic. A database dump from Netflix, some clever hackery in ArcView GIS, hpricot to scrape Metacritic and a lot of careful thought about the UI for navigating the data.

Posted 25th January 2010 at 1:11 pm

Recent articles

LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends - 8th January 2026
Introducing gisthost.github.io - 1st January 2026
2025: The year in LLMs - 31st December 2025

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