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Beautiful Public Data

A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies. By Jon Keegan.

  • By Jon Keegan
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly seven posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2022 9
2023 13
2024 6

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Visualizing Ship Movements with AIS Data
Some details of AIS tracking data around some of America's busiest waterways. Data: NOAA; Map: Jon Keegan / Beautiful Public Data As we run, drive, bike, and fly, humans leave behind telltale tracks of movement …
On , by Jon Keegan, 959 words
Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface
Before the internet, Americans may have interacted with the federal government by stepping into grand buildings adorned with impressive stone columns and gleaming marble floors. Today, the neoclassical architecture of those physical spaces has been …
On , by Jon Keegan, 768 words
Aerial Glacier Photographs
Source: USGS; National Science Foundation Arctic Data Center. As scientists study the effects of global warming, one of the most visible and alarming indicators is the rapid shrinking of glaciers. Government scientists have been documenting …
On , by Jon Keegan, 1,024 words