Simon Willison’s Weblog

25th January 2010 - Link Blog

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

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened - 22nd July 2026
A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team - 21st July 2026
Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark - 16th July 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 25th January 2010.

arcview 1 design 83 geospatial 82 hpricot 2 infographics 7 metacritic 1 netflix 7 new-york-times 31 ui 26 usability 98 visualisation 15

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe