GOLD ($1,000) ShipMap.org by Duncan Clark & Robin Houston at Kiln; data from UCL (UK) An interactive map of commercial shipping movements.   SILVER (tied - $500) What’s Your Pay Gap? by Lam Thuy Vo, Jessica Ma & Paul Overberg for The Wall Street Journal (U...

GOLD ($1,000) Flowing Data by Nathan Yau (USA) FlowingData helps everyone understand data.   SILVER ($500) Visualising Data by Andy Kirk (UK) Charts the development of the data visualisation field.   BRONZE ($250) Visualoop by Infogr.am (USA) The w...

GOLD ($1,000) Spies in the Skies by Peter Aldhous & Charles Seife for Buzzfeed  (USA) Analysing flight data to show the hundreds of federal planes spying on American citizens.   SILVER ($500) Science Isn't Broken by Christie Aschwanden & Ritchie King for F...

Commercial/biz Project GOLD ($1,000) Data USA by Datawheel, Deloitte & Macro Connections (USA) A free and open source platform that combines data from a variety of US statistical agencies.   SILVER ($500) News Explorer by IBM Watson (USA) Distilling unst...

GOLD ($1,000) The Missing Migrants Map by Valerio Pellegrini & Michele Mauri (Italy) Tracking all incidents recorded by the Missing Migrants Project.   SILVER ($500) Swanh.net by Martin Panchaud (Switzerland) The entire Star Wars Episode IV told in one 123m...

GOLD ($1,000) Earth Temperature Timeline by Randall Munroe of XKCD (USA) A hand-drawn timeline of Earth's average temperature since the last ice age glaciation.   SILVER ($500) Project Ukko - Seasonal Wind Predictions by Moritz Stefaner (Germany) Visualizing gl...

Tonight's the night! We will be celebrating the best of the best in dataviz & infographics at our London ceremony. We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everybody who entered, nominated, perused, judged & voted. It's been another great year for the Information is ...

The information is Beautiful Awards celebrates the world's most awesome dataviz & infographics, & we're psyched to be announcing the winners tomorrow, 2 Nov 2016, at our London ceremony.  Follow us on Twitter for live updates from 7pm (GMT). Why not browse the ex...

Next Weds, Nov 2 we celebrate the finest in dataviz and infographics at the 2016 Information is Beautiful Awards in London. We're giving away two tickets to the ceremony & party - including free food and drink. To enter, follow us on Twitter & retweet this announ...

Mashable’s Nuclear Legacy project uses long-exposure photography to visualize lingering radioactivity.   The images depict radiation in officially decontaminated areas at nuclear sites Chernobyl & Fukushima.   The team used an LED rod connected to a Geiger ...

View the 2016 Information is Beautiful Awards shortlist in full.    INFOGRAPHIC The Climate Challenge - Heather Jones When the World Washes - Kantar Worldpanel Garbage Sorting Recycling Figure - Pei Lei Ye 13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics - N...