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Just realized I hadn't posted my latest story on here:
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 from NOAA. 🚢🛥️⛴️🛳️
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/visualizing-ship-movements-with-ais-data/
⚡️⚡️⚡️Attention radio nerds! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Made some US Frequency Allocation chart T-shirts. Inspired by the NTIA’s insanely beautiful chart showing how the US radio spectrum is sliced up. It’s one of my favorite things that the US government publishes.
Unisex, Light and dark versions with two options: logo on front pocket and chart on back / chart on front
https://beautifulpublicdata.etsy.com/listing/1739031288
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 unknown pills.
We just landed on the moon for the first time in 50 years.
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 documented in NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/nasa-lunar-sample-collection/
Here's Dolphin SMR058. Photographed on Jan. 8, 2018 at 34.436830, -77.518370.
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 cheating death.
Read more about this NOAA database of 1,000 dolphin fins.
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/1000-photos-of-dolphin-fins/
🚨🚨🚨MUTCD ALERT!🚨🚨🚨
This is not a drill: The 11th Edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices just dropped! The PDF has 1,161 pages. The FHWA declares in its email:
"It’s hip.
It’s fresh!
It’s NOW!!
You've waited years for this moment.
You've traveled a long way to get here.
NOW...the MUTCD 11th Edition is here!"
Read all about the style guide for America's roads and highways:
https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/the-style-guide-for-americas-highways-mutcd/
11th Edition: https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/11th_Edition/mutcd11thedition.pdf
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.
