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Doug McCune
Personal blog · dougmccune.com/blog · on HN as dougmccunedesignculture
Doug McCune's personal blog at dougmccune.com covers design and culture. Since 2008, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Nifty 3D visualization of San Fransisco crime”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Doug McCune's 2010 San Francisco crime maps, including a 3D visualization that plots crime as elevation, for neighbourhood and city-safety comparisons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm an Oakland sculptor exploring the intersection of art and technology.
Most-linked posts?
- Nifty 3D visualization of San Fransisco crime6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-06-06
- I don’t read programming books (2007)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-29
What Hacker News says?
Here's a fun visualization: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-elevation/
on “Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay”Submitted Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart as a story · 389 points
HN discussionYou may find these maps helpful: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime... http://www.sfgate.com/maps/sfhomicides/
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-elevation/
on “Guide to where your cofounders should live in the SF Bay”Submitted Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart as a story · 109 points
HN discussionI'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-conve...
Comment linking /blog/2014/12/30/using-shp2stl-to-convert-maps-to-3d-models/
on “Hello, This Is London Rising: 3D Printing Maps from LIDAR Data”Submitted UX is making me dumb as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThat's exactly what I tried to do in my previous post: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2011/04/26/visualizing-time-with-... The big downsides I was trying to overcome with line/bar charts is the difficulty in preserving the continuity from the end of the chart back to the beginning. A normal bar chart usually just breaks the data, making it hard to understand the trend that occurs in the time period that spans the break.…
Comment linking /blog/2011/04/26/visualizing-time-with-the-double-time-bar-chart/
on “Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart”Submitted Nifty 3D visualization of San Fransisco crime as a story · 14 points
HN discussionHave you seen the one that plots crimes as if they were elevation? http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-elevation/
on “Crime Visualization of San Francisco”Submitted The New York Times Without Flash as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMost interesting; more from the original author at http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...
Comment linking /blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime-was-elevation/
on “Innovative 3D Maps Show Where to Find Drugs and Prostitutes in San Francisco”Submitted San Francisco Crime Represented as Elevation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I just decompiled a decompiler so I could use it to decompile itself (2008) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I don’t read programming books (2007) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Shp2stl to Convert Maps to 3D Models as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gmail blocking Messages to Yahoo Mailing Lists as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Drunk Traffic Map of DUIs in Portland as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hurricane Coasters - laser cut bamboo coasters featuring Irene, Isaac and Sandy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Visualize Hourly Trends as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Bay Area Homicide Constellation Map as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: 3D Print of the South Napa Earthquake as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Mapping the middle of nowhere with D3 and lasercutting as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hurricane Blueprints as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: My weekend project visualizing 108,394 deaths in Iraq as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Night Vision Maps of the WikiLeaks Iraq Casualty Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Doug McCune » Blog Archive » Why I don’t read books as a story · 1 points
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