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Police crime maps: the Doug McCune remix

The police crime maps have been controversial. But what happened when we asked one of the world's top data visualisers to take a look? The Guardian, 15 February 2011. "... Last year, Doug McCune's depiction of San Francisco crime levels as elevation won many fans in the visualisation community. We'd been looking for a chance to collaborate for a while. As soon as we received word of the police making their underlying data available, we got in touch and asked if he'd like to help us build a tool to enable folks to compare crime levels between two locations at once. He came back with the suggestion that we make use of the software he develops in his day job - a product that enables the exploration of large quantities of geo-data in a variety of ways..."

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