Beautiful Public Data is a newsletter by Jon Keegan that highlights visually interesting datasets from government agencies, with context on what each dataset contains and why it is striking. Each issue combines the source material with the writer's own observations, such as the anatomy of the Visible Human Project, WWII vehicle recognition guides, or boat names in NOAA vessel data.
Website: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/
Interline Technologies publishes practical technical articles on transit data, covering tools like Transitland, GTFS-Pathways station layouts, and feed checksum methods. Readers get concrete, hands-on guidance for working with public transit datasets and product tie-ins for their own tools.
Science Detective reports on fabricated and erroneous data found in open-access research datasets, using software that flags copy-pasted blocks of values. Each issue walks through specific cases, such as a widely cited Parkinson's paper, and explains how the problems were detected and why they went unnoticed.
Papa Reo is a newsletter from Te Hiku Media and related Indigenous data sovereignty projects, covering Māori and Indigenous perspectives on open data, licensing and AI. Readers get practical guidance on creating community data licences, workshop announcements, and critical commentary on how AI technologies affect Indigenous communities.
dClimate's blog covers its climate data products, including wall-to-wall TESSERA geospatial embeddings, the engineering behind productionizing them on the cloud, and carbon credit verification using satellite data. Readers get technical posts on geospatial data pipelines and practical notes on how climate data supports carbon market integrity.
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