Information is Beautiful Awards
  • About
  • News
  • Awards
  • FAQs
  • Entry Showcase
  • Nominations
  • Sponsor
  • Register
  • Sign In
  • Search
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
    • Register
    • Sign In
  • Home
  • Showcase
  • Awards
  • Challenges
      • All
      • 2022
      • 2019
      • 2018
      • 2017
      • 2016
      • 2015
      • 2014
      • 2013
      • 2012
      • All
      • Winners
      • Gold
      • Shortlist
      • Silver
      • Bronze
      • Rising Star
      • Impressive Individual
      • Best-Non-English-Language
      • Outstanding Studio
      • Student
      • Community
      • Most Beautiful
      • All
      • Arts, Entertainment & Culture
      • Humanitarian
      • Leisure, Games & Sport
      • Places, Spaces & Environment
      • Current Affairs & Politics
      • People, Language & Identity
      • Politics & Global
      • Science, Technology & Health
      • Unusual
      • Business Analytics
      • 2022 Special Category: COVID-19 Visualizations
      • Visualization & Information Design
  • Medium

    resourcetrade.earth

    Intuitive interactive maps & charts visualising an extensive & authoritative database of international trade in natural resources. Chatham House’s resource trade database reorganizes UN...
    resourcetrade.earth
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Air attack: How California uses dozens of aircraft to battle wildfires

    Firefighters battled some of the largest fires in California’s history in 2020's fire season. A fleet of specially equipped firefighting aircraft that can steer or contain a fire’s perimeter...
    graphics.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist Outstanding Studio
    View project
  • Medium

    Casting a Wider Net

    Newly released data shows the true extent of industrial fishing. More than 55 percent of the surface of the world’s oceans is fished, with China accounting for vastly more than any other country.
    tmsnrt.rs
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Dead on Arrival

    Since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his war on drugs a year ago, Philippine police have taken hundreds of dead bodies to hospital. Why?
    tmsnrt.rs
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    The Fight For Nigeria's Heartland

    Nigeria’s dry season is tinderbox for farming land. If current patterns persist, violence is likely to erupt between farmers and cattle herders. One in search of water, the other in keeping their...
    graphics.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Design With Nature

    For the 2022 Salone del Mobile, Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) were commissioned to design a 1400 sq. m. centerpiece exhibition focused on the year’s theme of sustainability. We worked with the...
    accurat.it
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    How The UK Transformed Its Electricity Supply In Just A Decade

    How has the UK – cradle of the industrial revolution – nearly ended its reliance on coal? Carbon Brief tells this story of unprecedented change in a scrolling graphical narrative that maps every...
    interactive.carbonbrief.org
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    The Future Of Arctic Shipping

    This deeply researched piece debunks the popular myth of the Northern route becoming a global shipping artery through the Arctic. Detailed shipping, bathymetric and ice coverage data, presented in...
    www.wsj.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Arborregions

    Bioregionalism is an attempt to align personal identity with natural regions rather than arbitrary political boundaries. But most bioregionalist mapping still relies on the familiar conventions of...
    www.radicalcartography.net
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    How far is too far? An analysis of driving times to abortion clinics in the US.

    Mapping the cities and places with the worst access.
    pudding.cool
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Cartographers Of North Korea

    Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has made possible the expansion the mapping to previously unmapped areas, thanks to technological advancements such as Web 2.0 and satellite imagery....
    cartographers-nk.wonyoung.so
    Longlist Shortlist Student Winners Gold
    View project
  • Medium

    Western Monarch Butterfly Population Decline

    In 2020, the western monarch butterfly population catastrophically declined to its lowest numbers since counts began – from 1.2 million in 1997 down to fewer than 2,000 butterflies. I created this...
    twitter.com
    Longlist Shortlist Silver
    View project
  • Medium

    Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically

    "Spain lives in flats" is an innovative and interactive journalistic project by elDiario.es that analyzes the footprint of more than 12 million buildings to map the height of Spanish cities in 3D...
    especiales.eldiario.es
    Longlist Shortlist Bronze
    View project
  • Medium

    City Street Network Orientations Around the World

    This project visualizes city street network orientation, configuration, and entropy using OpenStreetMap data and the Python-based OSMnx package. Each of these cities is represented by a polar...
    geoffboeing.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    A Flight Against Time

    Not all flights are equal. Because of time zones, flying from Los Angeles to New York City feels like an eternity, but New York City to Los Angeles is a breeze. “A flight against time” shows how...
    jordan-vincent.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Global Surface Temperature Anomalies

    This is a visual experiment showing the global surface temperature anomalies situation over the course of ~130 years. Baseline is defined as the 1971 - 2000 average in degrees Celsius. Positive...
    observablehq.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Ocean Shock: The Planet’s Hidden Climate Change

    The seas cover 71% of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. Water temperatures are rising. In a five part series, Reuters looks at the implications of the...
    www.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Earth At Night, Mountains Of Light

    What if Earth’s terrain was created by nighttime lights? This 3D web mapping experiment sheds some light on the question with a complete resculpting of our planet's surface. Human light...
    jwasilgeo.github.io
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
    View project
  • Medium

    Does Your District Draw School Zones To Increase Segregation?

    America's neighborhoods are highly segregated, and we often assign children to schools based on that underlying geography. But many of America's school districts actually draw school zones to make...
    www.vox.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Peak Spotting

    Peak Spotting combines machine learning and visual analytics to help manage passenger loads within Germany’s vast railway network. The project provides yield and capacity managers with rich...
    www.nand.io
    Longlist Shortlist Bronze Winners
    View project
  • Medium

    Heartbeats.

    Heartbeats. is an info-art piece to make the heartbeats of animals visible and audible. More than 150 species of animals are going extinct every day. Perhaps considering the beating, breathing...
    heartbeats.patternbased.com
    Longlist Shortlist Impressive Individual
    View project
  • Medium

    The 'Peak Hour' project

    Fairfax’s ‘Peak Hour’ combined old-fashioned with data journalism, video and interactive storytelling to chart the rise of Australia’s urban traffic woes, engaging its readers with insights...
    www.theage.com.au
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Wind Map

    A few weeks ago I set on trying out new WebGL 2.0 features with deck.gl. WebGL 2.0 brings plenty of new goodies to be used for game development, creative coding and data visualization like...
    philogb.github.io
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Learning From Toronto. An Experiment In Participatory Urban Data Visualization (Part 1)

    My graduate thesis was focused on how urban dataviz can be used to investigate the relationship between people’s perception of phenomena happening in cities, and data collected about them. I chose...
    www.andreagiambelli.com
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Italia: The Airship Crash Chronicle

    The multimedia long read ‘Italia. The Airship Crash Chronicle’ by Russian news agency TASS is dedicated to one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Arctic exploration. It chronicles the...
    italia.tass.com
    Longlist Shortlist Silver Winners
    View project
  • Medium

    #tagsandthecity

    #tagsandthecity renames subway stations after the Instagram hashtag which is most popular around them. So it draws a picture of how a city is photographed and what is going above each...
    tagsandthecity.net
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
  • Medium

    Anatomy of the Lismore disaster

    Three days before the biggest flood in modern Australian history inundated the Northern Rivers, Lismore City Council was told by the NSW government that its concerns were “premature”. It was the...
    www.smh.com.au
    Longlist Shortlist Gold
    View project
  • Medium

    Streetscapes - Mozart, Marx and a Dictator

    Streets and squares are an archive of both language and history. We discovered some fascinating patterns in the distribution of the 450,000 street names in Germany. They tell the story of almost...
    www.zeit.de
    Longlist Shortlist Bronze Winners
    View project
  • Medium

    Lights on & lights out

    As a follow-up to last week’s visualization of Old Light and New Light, I wanted to make a single map, of the whole world, comparing NASA’s new 2016 Earth At Night image to the 2012 version. Using...
    adventuresinmapping.com
    Longlist Shortlist Silver Winners
    View project
  • Medium

    Parts of Berlin

    Comparing the different types of space usage in Berlin, it soon becomes clear: It's a political question how much space the city is willing to use for what purpose. Are forests more important, or...
    partsofberlin.tagesspiegel.de
    Longlist Shortlist
    View project
1 2 Next › Last »
Information is
Beautiful Awards
Presented by the Data Visualization Society
  • FAQs
  • Awards Terms & Conditions
  • Website Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • About
  • News
  • Awards
  • FAQs
  • Entry Showcase
  • Nominations
  • Sponsor
  • Register
  • Sign In
  • Search
  • Email
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • DVS Twitter
  • DVS LinkedIn
  • informationisbeautiful.net
  • Data Visualization Society (DVS)
© Information is Beautiful, 2023