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A curated selection of visually interesting datasets collected by local, state and federal government agencies. By @Jonkeegan.com

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✨📊 The Army and Navy Style Guides

These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces.

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A page titled "Look and Feel" features guidelines for photo treatment alongside two images: one of a person with headphones on a sunlit deck, and another close-up of a person wearing a diving helmet underwater. The image features a stylized yellow star with a black outline next to the text "U.S. ARMY" on a black background. A fighter jet is shrouded in mist on the left, with aerial and sea vessels on the right, emphasizing dynamic, focused equipment photography. A collage of U.S. Army photographs showcasing rich, natural colors, featuring various scenes including a helicopter, a basketball player, soldiers, and scenic landscapes, accompanied by descriptive text on brand guidelines.
January 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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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…

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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 – national assets: the radio spectrum.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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✨📊 The Army and Navy Style Guides

These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces.

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A collage of images featuring military personnel in various dynamic and candid scenarios, with a caption emphasizing the focus on the human element. A fighter jet, surrounded by smoke, takes off from an aircraft carrier with additional images of a naval ship and boat on the right, alongside text about compelling equipment photography. The image shows the typeface "Liberator Heavy" with letters and numbers displayed on a light gray background. A guide on U.S. Army photographic style highlights immersive, dynamic, and authentic visuals featuring soldiers in action and equipment, accompanied by a checklist for capturing engaging images.
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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✨📊 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…

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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 public design system aims to make government websites not only look good, but to make them accessible and functional for all.
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January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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✨📊 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…

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Florida license plate featuring a manatee with the text "Save the Manatee" and the sample number "SAMPLE." Hawaii license plate featuring a red-sailed canoe, palm trees, mountains, and the text "ALOHA STATE Polynesian Voyaging Society" with the number PV001. This image shows a Washington state sample license plate featuring two clowns and the text "PATCHES PAL" with space for month and year tabs. Arizona license plate design featuring an image of a musician with "Alice Cooper's Solid Rock Teen Centers" text.
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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✨📊 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.

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Black and white aerial photograph of a snow-covered, mountainous landscape labeled "Tweedsmuir." Aerial view of a mountainous landscape with glaciers and a turquoise lake. Aerial view of a turquoise mountain lake surrounded by rugged, snow-capped peaks and rocky terrain. Aerial black and white image of Malaspina Glacier in Alaska showing distinctive, swirling patterns of ice and sediment.
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 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…

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A green and yellow capsule pill with "S251" and a stylized "8" printed on it against a green background. A yellow oval pill with "E 11" imprinted on one side. Three capsules vertically positioned, half purple and half orange, with "AMNEAL" and "670" printed on them, set against a purple background. Two capsules are half pink and half blue with "Andrx 698" and "240 mg" printed on them, set against a blue background.
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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…

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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 women”.
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December 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 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…

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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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December 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 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…

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Side diagram of a 1976 VW Rabbit with detailed pre-test location measurements. A damaged white car with testing markings is shown in a snowy outdoor setting. Illustration showing the seating positions and measurements for test dummies in a 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, detailing dimensions and alignment points. Two crash test dummies are seated inside a damaged car during a crash test simulation.
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 Photologging Vans

These sequences are from New York and Connecticut's state photolog archives, which I obtained through public records requests. Almost every state's hi…

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A vintage photograph of a two-lane, two-way highway with directional lines and measurements annotated on the image. The image shows a page from a book with black-and-white photographs of a road and surrounding landscape, alongside text discussing Kodak Type 5247 color negative film and its processing for photologging. A van equipped with a camera mounted on its roof for an FHWA photolog demonstration. A black-and-white videolog display shows a street view with overlaid text for street name, county/city, date, and other information.
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 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…

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A damaged white car with markings and test decals is parked in a snow-covered area. A red car with "BASELINE" and "TEST 4 CAR 10" labels is equipped with testing equipment and parked on a snowy surface with people and a camera in the background. Diagram of a Part 572 dummy in-vehicle position recording sheet for a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, showing measurements and configurations for seating and dummies. Diagram of a 1976 VW Rabbit with detailed pre-test side intrusion measurements and marked dimensions.
December 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 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…

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Two green and yellow capsules with markings "S251" and a logo on them. Two Tiazac 180 mg capsules, half teal and half white, displayed on a teal background. Two capsules, each half pink and half blue, with "Andrx 698" and "240 mg" printed on them. Two red and yellow capsules with "NP 10" printed on the red half against a pink background.
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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…

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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 women”.
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December 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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✨📊 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…

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Two pink and blue capsules with markings "Andrx 698" and "240 mg" displayed against a blue background. Two capsules filled with orange beads, marked "ETHEX 002," with purple and transparent ends. Two capsules labeled "FIORINAL 955," with green and yellow halves, are displayed against a green background. Two-tone green and yellow capsule pill with "S251" and a logo printed on it.
December 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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screenshot of online ship showing prints for sale AIS visualization, NYC area
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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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…

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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. 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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December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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✨📊 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…

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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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December 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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✨📊 A Rover's First 590 Days* on Mars

I downloaded 60,000 images to experience what NASA's Perseverance rover has been seeing since landing there in Feb. 2021.

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A Mars rover's camera captures a dusty, reddish Martian landscape with rocky hills in the background. Rocky Martian landscape captured by the Perseverance Rover, showing layered formations against a pale sky. A rocky, dusty landscape of Mars with scattered boulders and a hazy sky. Martian landscape with sandy terrain, scattered rocks, and a dust devil swirling in the distance under a hazy sky.
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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.

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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.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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NEW POST! 🪨🌈 A new, colorful map from the USGS synthesizes decades of state and federal geologic surveys to create the most detailed visualization of the geology of the contiguous United States to date. www.beautifulpublicdata.com/usgs-coopera...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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✨📊 The Army and Navy Style Guides

These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed forces.

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The image features the U.S. Army star, with accompanying text about its historical significance and visuals including the original U.S. flag, a World War II tank, and the army star logo. The image shows America's Navy logo featuring an eagle, anchor, and the words "America's Navy" above a background resembling water. A collage of images showing individuals engaged in various activities in a maritime setting, with an emphasis on dynamic and candid human elements. A collage of images depicting soldiers engaged in various training and team-building activities, accompanied by a text about community and connection in the U.S. Army.
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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✨📊 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…

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Two people are walking on a sidewalk alongside a street with a house and trees in the background, with red numerical data displayed at the top of the image. A busy urban street with multiple vehicles and a person on a motorcycle, overlaid with red numerical data at the top. A car is stopped at a rural intersection on a sunny day, with data overlaid at the top of the image. A person is walking along a rural road under a display with red numerical data.
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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.

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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.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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✨📊 FAA Aviation Maps

Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration's aviation maps.

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An instrument approach chart for ILS or LOC RWY 34 at Asheville Regional Airport, detailing procedures, altitudes, and navigation aids. This image displays an instrument approach chart for Asheville Regional Airport's ILS or LOC RWY 34, featuring navigational and procedural information. An aviation chart showing airways, navigation aids, and restricted zones in Texas, including Houston and surrounding areas. Instrument landing system (ILS) approach chart for runway 17L at Orlando International Airport (MCO), detailing navigation and approach instructions.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM