New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
664 by jamesharding | 117 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://ift.tt/ouOpqtY If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!

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