This year’s Information is Beautiful Awards is a treasure trove of outstanding dataviz. Thanks to our esteemed sponsor Kantar for supporting creativity in information design, providing $30k in prizes to the winners below.
Data Visualization
GOLD – Vaccines and Infectious Diseases by Dov Friedman and Tynan Debold at The Wall Street Journal
SILVER – A World of Languages by Alberto Lucas Lopez, published by SCMP
BRONZE – Rise of Partisanship by Mauro Martino and Clio Andris
Honourable mention – Close The Gap by Studio Metric
Data Journalism
GOLD – German Unification by Christian Bangel, Paul Blickle, Lisa Borgenheimer, Fabian Mohr, Julian Stahnke and Sascha Venohr, published by Zeit Online
SILVER – Why Pinellas County Is the Worst Place in Florida to Be Black and Go to Public School Nathaniel Lash, Martin Frobisher, Alexis N Sanchez, Michael LaForgia, published by The Tampa Bay Times
BRONZE – What’s Really Warming the World? by Eric Roston, Blacki Migliozzi, published by Bloomberg Business
Honourable mention – California’s Getting Fracked by Anna Flagg, Sarah Craig & Antonia Bruno, published by Faces of Fracking
Infographic
GOLD – Rare Earth Elements by Mark-Jan Bludau
SILVER – UFO Sightings by John Nelson and IDV Solutions
BRONZE – Valar Morghulis by Shelly Tan and Alberto Cuadra for the Washington Post
Interactive
GOLD – How Ebola Spreads by Bonnie Berkowitz and Lazario Gamio at The Washington Post
SILVER – The Counted: People Killed by Police in the United States in 2015 by Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey, Ciara McCarthy, Kenan Davis, Rich Harris, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, published by The Guardian
BRONZE (tied) – Job Market Tracker by Andrew Van Dam and Renee Lightner at The Wall Street Journal
BRONZE (tied) – Histography by Matan Stauber
Dataviz Website
GOLD – Visualising Data by Andy Kirk
SILVER – Flowing Data by Nathan Yau
BRONZE – Visualoop by Infogr.am and Tiago Veloso
Honourable mention – Visual Complexity by Manuel Lima
Internal Business Project
GOLD – London Squared Map: Making the City Easier to Read by Max Gadney, Mike Gallagher at After The Flood
SILVER (tied) – RPP Intranet by Robin Partington & Partners, Studio Baako
SILVER (tied) – DHL GoGreen Solutions Workbook by Monika Rasche
Commercial Client Project
GOLD – Migration in the Census and in the News by CLEVER°FRANKE, University of Sheffield, The Migration Observatory, VisualisingData
SILVER – Rent, Salary, Price of Houses by The Visual Agency
BRONZE – LA Dodgers Digital Trading Room by Marc Maleh, Damian Boyd-Boffa, Gene Perelson, and team
Motion Infographic
GOLD – The Fallen of WW2 by Neil Halloran
SILVER – How Many Trees Are There in World by Jan Willem Tulp of Tulp Interactive, published by Nature
BRONZE – Syrian War in 5 Minutes by Max Fisher and Johnny Harris, published by Vox
Honourable mention – Charting Culture by Maximilian Schich and Mauro Martino, published by Nature
Free Dataviz Tool
GOLD – D3.js by Mike Bostock
SILVER – R by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka
BRONZE – Tableau Public by Tableau
Honourable mention – Quadrigram by Quadrigram
Commercial Studio
GOLD – Accurat
SILVER – Domestic Data Streamers
BRONZE – Periscopic
Honourable mention – Clever Franke
Mini and Mobile Visualization
GOLD – How To Build A Human by Eleanor Lutz
SILVER – What’s across the Ocean from You When You’re at the Beach by Weiyi (Dawn) Cai and Ana Swanson, published by Washington Post
BRONZE – The Dude Map: How Americans Refer to Their Bros by Nikhil Sonnad, published by Quartz
Honourable mention – Here’s How Much of Your Life the United States Has Been at War by Philip Bump, published by The Washington Post
Special awards
Student
WINNER – Sara Piccolomini for: Freedom in Countries, published by La Lettura
Best Team
WINNER – Berliner Morgen Post for: Here’s How Loud It Is at Your Doorstep; M29 – The Bus Route of Contrasts and Where the Population of Europe is Growing – and Where’s it’s Declining
Individual Achievement
- WINNER – Tony Chu for Visual Intro to Machine Learning, Free Congress
Data Visualization Project
GOLD – Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
SILVER – On Broadway by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, Lev Manovich
BRONZE – 2014 Annual Report by Nicholas Felton
Honourable mention – Surgeon Scorecard by Sisi Wei, Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen, published by ProPublica
Community Vote
Based on entire 2015 Shortlist
GOLD – The World in 2015 by Peter Winfield, John Parker at The Economist
SILVER – Earth: a visualisation of Global Weather Conditions by Cameron Beccario
BRONZE – Drones by Michael Yap, Zoe Mendelson, Zack Davenport at Friends
Most Beautiful
The entry from the 2015 shortlist that received the most votes from judges & public combined
WINNER – Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec
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