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Follow the facts.

A good data story leaves a trail. Find the sources, the date, the method, and the things it cannot tell you.

What this edition uses.

Owner-supplied assets

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Public research

Historical milestones, examples, community tradeoffs, and tracking lessons use government, research, and original company sources linked below.

Company claims are attributed. Acquisition values are not dataset prices. No NDS sales, customers, outcomes, or proprietary rankings are invented.

The directory

51 state/DC, 25 selected county, and 72 selected city resources. City examples span all 50 states and D.C. Local lists are not complete.

Checked October 17, 2026: 142 resources reached, 6 blocked automated checks, and 5 could not be confirmed automatically, across all 153 U.S., national, and international entries. Each entry shows exceptions.

GSA/Data.gov discovery directory ↗

The learning models

The calculator has invented settings. The bus data and advertising trail are pretend. Place markers are simplified. None is a live query of the private DuckDBs.

Read each model’s limits before applying the lesson to a real decision.

Primary source shelf.

Checked October 17, 2026. Historical publication dates are kept in the linked records. A link is a source, not an endorsement or a partnership.

  1. Who Conducted the First Census in 1790? ↗www.census.gov
  2. Tabulation and Processing ↗www.census.gov
  3. Census Bureau Innovations FAQs ↗www.census.gov
  4. A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks ↗research.ibm.com
  5. Edgar F. Codd ↗www.ibm.com
  6. Data.gov User Guide ↗data.gov
  7. Fifty Years of Landsat: Observing Earth to Look Forward ↗www.usgs.gov
  8. Farming with GPS ↗www.gps.gov
  9. UPS To Enhance ORION With Continuous Delivery Route Optimization ↗www.globenewswire.com
  10. UPS Deploys Purpose-Built Navigation For UPS Service Personnel ↗about.ups.com
  11. The IBM System/360 ↗www.ibm.com
  12. A short history of the Web ↗home.cern
  13. Announcing Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – beta ↗aws.amazon.com
  14. DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers ↗www.energy.gov
  15. Develop SI model — SI in AM ↗pages.nist.gov
  16. Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn ↗news.microsoft.com
  17. Microsoft and LinkedIn begin journey to empower professionals around the world to achieve more ↗blogs.microsoft.com
  18. Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Tableau ↗www.salesforce.com
  19. Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Tableau ↗www.salesforce.com
  20. IBM Plans to Acquire The Weather Company's Product and Technology Businesses ↗uk.newsroom.ibm.com
  21. IBM 2016 Annual Report — Note C: Acquisitions/Divestitures ↗www.sec.gov
  22. DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers ↗www.energy.gov
  23. 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report ↗eta-publications.lbl.gov
  24. Cooling Water Efficiency Opportunities for Federal Data Centers ↗www.energy.gov
  25. Water Science Glossary ↗www.usgs.gov
  26. Data Centers: County regulation and community questions ↗www.fairfaxcounty.gov
  27. Sale of County-Owned Land at 3721 Stonecroft Boulevard ↗www.fairfaxcounty.gov
  28. Data Centers in Virginia ↗jlarc.virginia.gov
  29. Bexar County Public Works: Frequently Asked Questions ↗www.bexar.org
  30. Clean Air Act Resources for Data Centers ↗www.epa.gov
  31. Air PBR 106.511: Portable and Emergency Engines and Turbines ↗www.tceq.texas.gov
  32. How Websites and Apps Collect and Use Your Information ↗consumer.ftc.gov
  33. FTC Recommends Greater Transparency and Consumer Control Over Data Brokers ↗www.ftc.gov
  34. FTC Cracks Down on Mass Data Collectors: Avast, X-Mode, and InMarket ↗www.ftc.gov
  35. Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program ↗www.nist.gov
  36. Robotics and Manufacturing Automation ↗www.nist.gov
  37. U.S. Army: conditional data-center selections, March 26, 2026 ↗www.army.mil
  38. U.S. Army data-center Enhanced Use Lease fact sheet, March 2026 ↗api.army.mil
  39. U.S. Army: installation resilience and community partnerships, March 5, 2026 ↗www.army.mil
  40. DOE: clean energy resources and data-center electricity demand ↗www.energy.gov
  41. DOE: Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design, 2024 ↗www.energy.gov
  42. NIST SP 800-53 controls: alternate sites and separation, CP-6 and CP-7 ↗csrc.nist.gov
  43. NIST SP 800-223: high-performance computing security ↗csrc.nist.gov
  44. FEMA Flood Map Service Center ↗msc.fema.gov
  45. EPA Brownfields and Land Revitalization ↗www.epa.gov
  46. NASA: Earth System Science Research ↗science.nasa.gov
  47. NASA: Planetary Science ↗science.nasa.gov
  48. USGS: What is a geographic information system? ↗www.usgs.gov
  49. USGS: What is remote sensing? ↗www.usgs.gov
  50. USGS: GeoAI for topographic mapping, 2021 ↗www.usgs.gov
  51. FGDC: National Spatial Data Infrastructure overview ↗www.fgdc.gov
  52. U.S. Census Bureau: geographic hierarchy diagrams ↗www.census.gov
  53. NASA: Wildfire Digital Twin research, May 21, 2024 ↗science.nasa.gov
  54. Google DeepMind: Levels of AGI, ICML 2024 ↗deepmind.google
  55. Google DeepMind: From AGI to ASI, June 12, 2026 ↗deepmind.google
  56. NIST: AI Risk Management Framework 1.0, 2023 ↗nvlpubs.nist.gov
  57. BLS: cartographers and photogrammetrists ↗www.bls.gov
  58. USGS: Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science ↗www.usgs.gov
  59. U.S. Commerce: Data and reports / linked geospatial strategy ↗www.commerce.gov
  60. U.S. Commerce Geospatial Strategy, FY2021–2024 / MAF-TIGER example, page 7 ↗www.commerce.gov
  61. FGDC: SDI Modernization 2026–2027 / planned activities ↗www.fgdc.gov
  62. NGA: About Us / the formal GEOINT discipline ↗www.nga.mil
  63. European Journalism Centre: The Data Journalism Handbook ↗ejc.net