Beautiful Public Data
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A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies. By @Jonkeegan.com Free newsletter: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/ Merch inspired by our stories: https://shop.beautifulpublicdata.com
NEW POST: ⚓️ From SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names packed with nautical puns, dirty jokes, and Tolkien deep cuts. 📊 Includes a fun searchable interactive to look through the data. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/
50,000 boat names
From SEA SLUT II to BILBOAT BAGGINS, a deep dive into AIS vessel data turns up 50,000 boat names packed with nautical puns, dirty jokes, and Tolkien deep cuts.
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✨📊 The footprints of every building in NYC The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprints-of-every-building-in-nyc
✨📊 NASA Ames Research Center Archives In the heart of Silicon Valley, NASA Ames Research Center has the world's largest wind tunnel, and a rich history of space and aeronautics innovation captured in a fascinating visual archive. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/nasa-ames-research-center-archives
Added more USGS geologic map state T-shirts!
Jon Keegan@jonkeegan.com · 2w agoI've been adding these USGS geologic map state T-shirts to my shop. So far: New York, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Maine. In light + dark colors. Free shipping at 15% off: shop.beautifulpublicdata.com/discount/BSK... About the map www.beautifulpublicdata.com/usgs-coopera...
✨📊 Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with "Rickshaws", "Centaurs" or "Mechanical w… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/uspto-trademark-design-codes
Trademark Design Codes
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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✨📊 The GOES-16 Weather Satellite Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-goes-16-weather-satellite
The GOES-16 Weather Satellite
Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
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NEW POST! 🏙️ The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly. I can’t believe this is the first NYC dataset I have written about. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-footprin...
✨📊 The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/trump-naughty-faa-waypoints
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
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✨📊 The United States Frequency Allocation Chart This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation's most crucial – and invisible – nation… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-united-states-radio-frequency-allocation-chart
The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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✨📊 The Style Guide for America's Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd
The Style Guide for America’s Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals. But the one consistent thing that will stay the same from Maine to California are the signs you pass on the highway. That is because America’s roads and highways have a big, fat style guide.
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✨📊 Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maint… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/nist-special-database-18-3-248-mugshots-used-for-training-image-recognition-systems
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
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✨📊 The Style Guide for America's Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd
The Style Guide for America’s Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals. But the one consistent thing that will stay the same from Maine to California are the signs you pass on the highway. That is because America’s roads and highways have a big, fat style guide.
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✨📊 Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with "Rickshaws", "Centaurs" or "Mechanical w… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/uspto-trademark-design-codes
Trademark Design Codes
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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✨📊 The GOES-16 Weather Satellite Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-goes-16-weather-satellite
The GOES-16 Weather Satellite
Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
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NEW POST: San Diego Photologs from the 1970s You're rolling down Camino Del Rio smoking a Lark, listening to Rare Earth, before pulling into a Texaco to pay $0.34 per gallon for low-lead Fire Chief gas and fill up your "Mellow Yellow" AMC Gremlin. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-ph...
NEW POST on @beautifulpublicdata.com: San Diego Photologs from the 1970s - A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage. beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-ph...
✨📊 Utah Highway LiDAR Scans Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/utah-lidar
Utah Highway LiDAR Scans
Utah's Department of Transportation uses state-of-the-art 3-D laser scanners to capture the surfaces and area surrounding 15,000 miles of its roads.
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✨📊 Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with "Rickshaws", "Centaurs" or "Mechanical w… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/uspto-trademark-design-codes
Trademark Design Codes
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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✨📊 Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maint… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/nist-special-database-18-3-248-mugshots-used-for-training-image-recognition-systems
Special Database 18: 3,248 Mugshots Used for Training Image Recognition Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
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✨📊 Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/mapping-volcano-eruptions-with-drones
Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions.
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✨📊 Trademark Design Codes The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with "Rickshaws", "Centaurs" or "Mechanical w… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/uspto-trademark-design-codes
Trademark Design Codes
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has a system of 1,400 descriptive "design codes" allowing you to search for trademarks with “Rickshaws”, “Centaurs” or “Mechanical women”.
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🛑⚠️🅿️ New merch just dropped on my @beautifulpublicdata.com Etsy shop! A fun collage of hundreds of US highways signs from the FHA's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). Premium 100% cotton, heavyweight. beautifulpublicdata.etsy.com/listing/4510...
NEW MERCH: The USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map is the most detailed visualization of the geology of the United States to date. We made some shirts featuring the colorful geologic makeup of different states. First up: NEW YORK More states to come! beautifulpublicdata.etsy.com
✨📊 Pilot Manual for a 1940's U.S. Navy Blimp This 122 page manual contains all of the operating instructions and technical details needed to pilot this sleek, silver, 250 foot long, weaponiz… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/pilot-manual-for-a-1940-u-s-air-force-blimp
Pilot Manual for a 1940's U.S. Navy Blimp
This 122 page manual contains all of the operating instructions and technical details needed to pilot this sleek, silver, 250 foot long, weaponized anti-submarine dirigible.
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✨📊 Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/visualizing-ship-movements-with-ais-data
Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data
Explore the beautiful, intricate paths of ships over a year—tracked from America's busiest ports to the open ocean via AIS marine tracking data.
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✨📊 The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/trump-naughty-faa-waypoints
The Naughty Words the FAA Removed From the Sky
New FOIA records from the FAA shed light on the frantic effort in 2015 to rename navigation waypoints related to Donald Trump and reveal the list of naughty waypoint names that were changed over the years.
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✨📊 The United States Frequency Allocation Chart This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation's most crucial – and invisible – nation… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-united-states-radio-frequency-allocation-chart
The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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✨📊 The United States Frequency Allocation Chart This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation's most crucial – and invisible – nation… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-united-states-radio-frequency-allocation-chart
The United States Frequency Allocation Chart
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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✨📊 US Government UFO (UAP) Footage For decades, the public suspected that the US Government was hiding secret intelligence about UFOs — (now known as UAPs). Turns out…it kind of was. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/us-government-ufo-uap-footage
