Data

Places that find the interesting data and show you what’s in it.

Sites

• Beautiful Public Data (Website) — Jon Keegan’s newsletter on the visually interesting datasets that local, state, and federal government agencies collect and quietly publish: building footprints for all of New York City, 1970s San Diego street photologs, the USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map, declassified Cold War military slides, government UFO/UAP footage.
• Visual Capitalist (Website) — data journalism built around one ranked or mapped graphic per story: the world’s most valuable airlines, why tungsten prices jumped 622% since 2025, U.S. population change charted through 2040. The chart does the arguing; the text is just captions.