Sep 21, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has an archive of an estimated 10,000 films of nuclear weapons tests from the 1940's - 1960's.
Sept. 15, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan, Dan Phiffer and Joel Eastwood
Loading links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack takes far longer than to other sites. We built a tool so you can check any domain you like
Aug 21, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations, professions, sports teams, causes and other groups.
August 3, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Jesse Woo
An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy
July 1, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
The dirt on data brokers’ latest privacy buzzword
June 23, 2023
The Markup
By Joel Eastwood, Gabriel Hongsdusit, and Jon Keegan
In mere milliseconds, online advertisers scrutinize your personal data and bid for your eyeballs
June 13, 2023
The Markup
By Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan
The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel
June 8, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Joel Eastwood
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences
June 1, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
A proposed class-action lawsuit cites Markup reporting and claims the family-tracking app did not get user consent to sell location data
May 23, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions.
May 2, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Apr 10, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Mar 27, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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 was dedicated. It was never turned on.
Mar 18, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has maintained a dataset of mugshot photos of 1,573 people for decades, including 175 minors, until we asked about them.
February 22, 2023
NPR
By Jon Keegan
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with reporter Jon Keegan of The Markup about the data that Kroger grocery chain collects about customers in its loyalty program.
February 16, 2023
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart—and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers.
Feb 13, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Feb 6, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
This crazy, beautiful chart illustrates the incredible complexity of managing one of our nation’s most crucial – and invisible – national assets: the radio spectrum.
Jan 9, 2023
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Dec 29, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
Nov 26, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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 smithereens.
November 8, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
Before you got in line on Election Day, the emerging and largely unregulated political tracking industry was able to trace your movements.
Nov 7, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and floodplains.
Oct 20, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
I downloaded 60,000 images to experience what NASA's Perseverance rover has been seeing since landing there in Feb. 2021.
Oct 3, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Sep 27, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
Satellites used to observe weather are so ubiquitous it is easy to take them for granted. GOES-16 is worthy of your attention.
Sep 19, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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.
Sep 15, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
These sequences are from New York and Connecticut’s state photolog archives, which I obtained through public records requests. Almost every state’s highway departments had highway photolog programs, some dating back as early as 1961. These sequences were captured by specially tricked out vans. The earliest used 16mm film,
Sep 10, 2022
Beautiful Public Data
By Jon Keegan
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 document the status of roadways.
July 27, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you’ve probably never heard of
July 15, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
A free trial dashboard from INRIX listed Planned Parenthood as a “chain,” with at least 71 locations in 35 states.
July 1, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Dara Kerr
Personal information from reviewers was also exposed until The Markup’s inquiry.
June 13, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
The passage of the bill could result in a national policy shift.
April 1, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The family safety company was approached by regulators about its data sales.
March 21, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The case suggests this loosely regulated industry can’t deliver on its promises of privacy.
February 24, 2022
The Markup
By Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan
Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect
February 17, 2022
The Markup
By Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan
Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps
January 27, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
Life360 Says It Will Stop Selling Precise Location Data The announcement comes after The Markup identified the family tracking app as one of the largest sources of raw data for the location data industry
January 27, 2022
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The Markup identified 107 apps that sold data to X‑Mode in 2018 and 2019
December 6, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
The app is a major source of raw location data for a multibillion-dollar industry that buys, packages, and sells people’s movements
September 30, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng
A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements.
August 6, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
The Markup found dozens of pins containing hateful content, which raises fresh questions about the platform’s content moderation strategy.
July 9, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
Our Citizen Browser project found an array of proxies through which advertisers can target Black Facebook users, among otherdemographics.
March 24, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Colin Lecher
The results, measuring accessibility and privacy protections, were not always great.
February 16, 2021
The Markup
By Jon Keegan, Colin Lecher, and Corin Faife
Data from Citizen Browser shows how rare it is for a post to be called “false”—especially if you’re the president.
January 14, 2021
The Markup
By Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook surrounding the seige of the U.S. Capitol.
October 20, 2020
The Markup
By Jon Keegan
Manufacturers in a broad range of industries have a monopoly on who repairs machines—and when devices are deemed unfixable. Here's a look at the Right to Repair movement and the effort to codify such a right in law.
September 17, 2020
The Markup
By Jon Keegan and Annie Gilbertson
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides.