✨📊 Vehicle Crash Test Films from the 1970's and 1980s Deep in the public archives of the NHTSA, there are thousands of films of some classic (and some ugly) 70's and 80's cars being smashed into… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/vehicle-crash-test-films-from-the-1980s

✨📊 Aerial Glacier Photographs A collection of 100,000 striking high-resolution aerial photos of glaciers, photographed over 40 years with a 63-pound WW II surveillance camera. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/aerial-glacier-photographs

✨📊 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

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars… 🔗 https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/wild-horses

✨📊 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

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars… 🔗 https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 Mapping the Sea Floor USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/mapping-the-sea-floor

I have a story about how researchers are using LiDAR to measure the damage from the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles in the September/ October issue of MIT Technology Review (@technologyreview.com) on newsstands now!

✨📊 Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful pub… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/us-web-design-system-public-sans

✨📊 Design for the People: The US Web Design System and the Public Sans Typeface The United States has an official web design system and a custom typeface that belongs to the people. This thoughtful pub… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/us-web-design-system-public-sans

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

☕️ For your weekend reading: How LiDAR measures the toll of climate disasters: Comparing LiDAR data from before and after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles reveals the scale of devastation in ways satellite imagery can’t match. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/how-lidar-me...

✨📊 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

Topographic differencing of lidar turns wildfire impacts into measurable change. OpenTopography’s Cassandra Brigham is quoted on rapid differencing after the 2025 LA fires. ⬇️ www.beautifulpublicdata.com/how-lidar-me...

✨📊 All of the 8,331 License Plates in America States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations, professions, sports teams, causes and other… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/all-of-the-license-plates-in-the-united-states

✨📊 The Pillbox Database The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of u… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-pillbox-database

New post: Comparing LiDAR data from before and after the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles reveals the scale of devastation in ways satellite imagery can’t match. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/how-lidar-me...

New post next week! Added some new merch to our Etsy shop. - A new T-shirt featuring declassified blueprint for the AVROCAR, a secret UFO-shaped experimental aircraft. - New framed print: One year of ship movements AIS data visualized around New York City. More here: beautifulpublicdata.etsy.com

✨📊 The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/army-navy-style-guides

Trump is going after The US Web Design System. The USWDS already does this important work of making government websites well-designed, functional, and accessible to all. I wrote about their good work last year: www.beautifulpublicdata.com/us-web-desig... Not sure what he has in mind. More gold?

✨📊 Highway Photologs Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as 1961. Each year, specially tricked out vans would drive each mile of state road snapping photos to… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/highway-photologs

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/army-navy-style-guides

✨📊 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

✨📊 Wild Horses The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/wild-horses

✨📊 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 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 Mirror Fusion Test Facility A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it w… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-mirror-fusion-test-facility

✨📊 Mapping the Sea Floor USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/mapping-the-sea-floor

✨📊 Highway Photologs Highway departments all around the country had "photolog" programs, some dating back as early as 1961. Each year, specially tricked out vans would drive each mile of state road snapping photos to… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/highway-photologs

✨📊 The Pillbox Database The National Library of Medicine's Pillbox dataset contained 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of u… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/the-pillbox-database

✨📊 1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat propellers leave their marks, imprinting a story of close escapes and cheatin… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/1000-photos-of-dolphin-fins

✨📊 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

From Beautiful Public Data, a look into the Internet Archive’s collection of 5000 images from the NASA Ames Research Center. “Browsing through this amazing archive gives you a unique view of decades’ worth of breakthrough research.” [beautifulpublicdata.com]

✨📊 Here's All the Rocks We Hauled Back From the Moon The 12 human beings who walked on the Moon collected, catalogued and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil. Each sample has been meticulously docum… https://beautifulpublicdata.com/nasa-lunar-sample-collection

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 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

✨📊 Government Comic Books Government comics have taught Americans how to prevent forest fires, survive a nuclear blast, and how soldiers should handle homosexuality in the military. https://beautifulpublicdata.com/government-comic-books

✨📊 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