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.

# 25th January 2010, 1:11 pm / arcview, design, gis, hpricot, infographics, metacritic, netflix, new-york-times, ui, usability, visualisation

The CSS Redundancy Checker. A tool for checking your markup for outdated CSS rules that don’t match any of your HTML. We were discussing the need for something similar to this at Torchbox a few weeks ago.

# 6th July 2007, 12:02 pm / css, hpricot, html, ruby, tom-armitage, tools