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.