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50,000 boat names — mattwood.fyi

50,000 boat names

An analysis of over 50,000 boat names extracted from NOAA's AIS vessel traffic data, exploring the creative, humorous, and pop-culture-inspired names that boat owners choose, alongside insights into who owns boats in the United States.

An important dataset, but the all-time best boat name of all time is clearly: Earn Trussed.

www.beautifulpublicdata.com →

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Mario meets Pareto Both apply analytical frameworks to reveal unexpected patterns in human behavior — Pareto distributions likely appear in boat name popularity just as they do in Mario gameplay analysis
How This Was Made Both are meta-analytical pieces examining the process and methodology behind data-driven creative projects, with 'How This Was Made' likely documenting a similar data exploration approach

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America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are Both use large historical/archival datasets (NOAA AIS vessel data vs. 1926 report) to extract cultural insights about American identity and collective behavior patterns
The Uni-Context: A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird The quirky, humorous, culturally-specific naming patterns in boat names illustrate the kind of human individuality and meaning-making that the 'Uni-Context' piece argues gets flattened by modern abstraction
Taste Is All That's Left Boat name analysis is fundamentally an exploration of taste and creative expression — the humor, pop-culture references, and wordplay in naming choices directly illustrates the argument that taste remains a distinctly human domain

Book Prize Index Both are structured, searchable databases built around a specific corpus of named items (boat names vs. prize-winning books)—quirky but purposeful aggregation projects that demonstrate value in organizing niche reference data for lookup and exploration.

Type:	link
First published:	Tuesday, 11 August 2026 at 01:04 UTC
Location:	https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/
URL:	https://mattwood.fyi/i/ec4eedb5

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