Information is Beautiful Awards 2022: The Winners
After a two-year pause in the Information is Beautiful Awards, the Data Visualization Society (DVS) has been delighted to work with the Information is Beautiful team to continue the spirit of celebrating excellence across the field of data visualization.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in reopening the Information is Beautiful Awards! We are very excited to announce the winners who took home trophies at tonight’s Awards ceremony.
2022 Special Category: Covid-19 Visualizations
GOLD WINNER: MTA Ridership Changes due to Covid-19 by Two-N
SILVER WINNER: Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing by Thomas Haas & Fidel Thomet
BRONZE WINNER: Stopping the spread by Reuters
Arts, Entertainment, & Culture
GOLD WINNER: Made to Measure by Studio NAND and The Group Laokoon
SILVER WINNER: What Spotify data show about the decline of English by The Economist
BRONZE WINNER: hong kong artists, women by Shirley Wu
Business Analytics
GOLD WINNER: The star of our work by Voilà:
SILVER WINNER: Metroverse - The Growth Lab’s Urban Economy Navigator by The Digital Development & Design Team at the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School
BRONZE WINNER: HR Attrition Dashboard by Pradeep Kumar G
Current Affairs
GOLD WINNER: Culture in the Crosshairs by Australian Broadcasting Corporation
SILVER WINNER: The first 100 days of protests rocking Hong Kong by South China Morning Post
BRONZE WINNER: Rough Justice by Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Humanitarian
GOLD WINNER: Abandoned at Sea by Kontinentalist
SILVER WINNER: Threatened Tribe by Reuters
BRONZE WINNER: Afghanistan20 by Accurat
Leisure, Games, & Sport
GOLD WINNER: Thunder Roads by Joey Cherdarchuk
SILVER WINNER: Animated Sport Results by Krisztina Szűcs
BRONZE WINNER: How You Play Spades is How You Play Life: Spades in the African-American Community by Gabrielle Ione Hickmon
People, Language, & Identity
GOLD WINNER: Gender and language by Reuters
SILVER WINNER: Sweet & Slim, Greasy & Grim: The Physical Traits that Define Men & Women in Literature by Erin Davis
BRONZE WINNER: The Shape of Dreams by Alberto Cairo, Federica Fragapane, Paolo Corti, and Simon Rogers
Places, Spaces, & Environment
GOLD WINNER: Anatomy of the Lismore disaster by the Sydney Morning Herald
SILVER WINNER: Western Monarch Butterfly Population Decline by Dipika Kadaba
BRONZE WINNER: Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically by elDiario.es
Science, Technology, & Health
GOLD WINNER: Degrees of Uncertainty by Neil Halloran and Andy Dollerson
SILVER WINNER: K-Means Clustering: An Explorable Explainer by Yi Zhe Ang
BRONZE WINNER: The perfect storm by Reuters
Unusual
GOLD WINNER: Life under curfew by Social Justice Centre Working Group
SILVER WINNER: I am a book. I am a portal to the universe. by Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick
BRONZE WINNER: A Song of Crowns and Tears by Simon Huwiler
Rising Star
WINNER: Matthias Stahl
Impressive Individual
WINNER: SIORI KITAJIMA (Heartbeats, Information and Violence, Pulse of Love and Hate, Perspective)
Outstanding Studio
WINNER: Reuters
Stopping the Spread, The Perfect Storm, Gender and language, Hot and Humid Olympic Summer, Shifting Smoke, Air Attack: How California Uses Dozens of Aircraft to Battle Wildfires, New Normal: How Far is Safe Enough? and Threatened Tribe
Exemplary Book
WINNER: Data Sketches by Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu
Test of Time
WINNER: D3, credited to creators Mike Bostock, Jason Davies, and Philippe Rivière
Community Leader
WINNER: Alli Torban
Most Beautiful
WINNER: hong kong artists, women by Shirley Wu
Community Vote
WINNER: Lumos Maxima by Kirti Vardhan Rathore
Thank you to our judging panel, committee volunteers, and sponsors, for this year’s Awards could not have been possible without you.
We hope to see everyone again for next year’s Awards!
