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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.
15HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Nifty 3D visualization of San Fransisco crime
    6 people · 18 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
  2. 2
    I don’t read programming books (2007)
    2 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart
    1 people · 389 points · first shared 2016 · 207 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart
    1 people · 109 points · first shared 2011 · 14 comments on HN
  5. 5
    UX is making me dumb
    1 people · 19 points · first shared 2009 · 5 comments on HN
  6. 6
    The New York Times Without Flash
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Gmail blocking Messages to Yahoo Mailing Lists
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Using Shp2stl to Convert Maps to 3D Models
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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    Show HN: Drunk Traffic Map of DUIs in Portland
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
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    Show HN: Bay Area Homicide Constellation Map
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    Night Vision Maps of the WikiLeaks Iraq Casualty Data
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
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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…
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…

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