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Doug McCune
dougmccune.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2008
Doug McCune, a developer who builds data visualizations and 3D maps, and writes on programming and UX.
What HN saysHN links it mostly for his San Francisco crime-as-elevation visualization and his shp2stl tool that turns shapefiles into 3D-printable models.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Nifty 3D visualization of San Fransisco crime6 people · 18 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 2I don’t read programming books (2007)2 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 3Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart1 people · 389 points · first shared 2016 · 207 comments on HN
- 4Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart1 people · 109 points · first shared 2011 · 14 comments on HN
- 5UX is making me dumb1 people · 19 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
- 6The New York Times Without Flash1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Gmail blocking Messages to Yahoo Mailing Lists1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 8Using Shp2stl to Convert Maps to 3D Models1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9I just decompiled a decompiler so I could use it to decompile itself (2008)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 10Show HN: Drunk Traffic Map of DUIs in Portland1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Hurricane Coasters - laser cut bamboo coasters featuring Irene, Isaac and Sandy1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12Show HN: Mapping the middle of nowhere with D3 and lasercutting1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Show HN: Bay Area Homicide Constellation Map1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 14Night Vision Maps of the WikiLeaks Iraq Casualty Data1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15Show HN: My weekend project visualizing 108,394 deaths in Iraq1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
dougmccune · 2016-05-16
I'll plug an open source lib I wrote called shp2stl that converts shapefiles into 3D models suitable for printing.
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2014/12/30/using-shp2stl-to-convert-maps-to…
enf · 2010-07-28
Have you seen the one that plots crimes as if they were elevation? http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-eleva…
gojomo · 2010-07-13
You may find these maps helpful:
http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-eleva…
http://www.sfgate.com/maps/sfhomicides/
FlemishBeeCycle · 2010-07-13
Here's a fun visualization: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-eleva…
anigbrowl · 2010-06-06
Most interesting; more from the original author at http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-eleva…