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Mapping the songwriter family tree with small data

Adapted from my talk at Small Data SF 2025

This post is adapted from my talk at Small Data SF on November 5, 2025, "Uncharted: Building a Semantic Layer + MCP to Map 1.7M Songwriter Connections with Claude Code." Watch the talk on YouTube.

If you've heard of Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Quincy Jones, or Justin Vernon, you've been touched by a problem most people never pay attention to: who wrote the song, and who they wrote it with. This is about how I went after that problem with small data.

A survey of MCP patterns and evolving practices

(Data collected May 26–29, 2025)

Since its introduction in November of 2024, the Model Context Protocol has been hailed as the "USB of AI applications". While its not nearly as ubiquitous as those wonderful little ports, its certainly growing in momentum.

Google Trends interest in "MCP" over time

Google Trends interest in "MCP" over time

I've been a user of MCPs since the standard was first introduced in November of 2024, and have built a handful of private, internal MCP servers for clients since then.

I'm now working on my first public MCP implementations and that led me to wonder: what are the emerging trends and best practices regarding MCP definition?