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  • Medium

    Rich School, Poor School: Australia’s Great Education Divide

    This project used exclusive income and spending data for every school in Australia to show for the first time exactly how big the divide between rich and poor schools has grown. The divide is so...
    www.abc.net.au
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Bronze Outstanding Studio
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  • Medium

    How Hard Is It To Make A Believable Deepfake?

    Deepfakes — which use machine learning to create fake videos — burst onto the internet in 2017 and were decried as the end of trust, having the potential to bring down democracy, and evidence of...
    www.abc.net.au
    Longlist Shortlist Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    Plastic Profusion

    Plastic waste, mostly from rivers or careless dumping on land, washes into the oceans at an average rate of about nine million tons a year. The visible trash, along with heartbreaking images of its...
    www.nationalgeographic.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Impressive Individual Gold
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  • Medium

    Social Credit System: Breathing Scores?

    The Social Credit System is a national reputation system in development by the Chinese Government, which will give to each Chinese citizen a score based on their identity online and their behaviour...
    densitydesign.github.io
    Longlist Shortlist Student Winners Bronze
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  • Medium

    Ahead Of The Fire

    To investigate the threat from wildfire to communities across the West, The Arizona Republic and USA TODAY carried out a level of analysis usually reserved for academics and scientists. We analyzed...
    iibawards-prod.s3.amazonaws.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Bronze
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  • Medium

    The Invisible Crime: Are We Failing Victims Of Sexual Violence?

    Sexual violence in Australia is pervasive but rarely prosecuted, much less punished. Invisible Crime is an attempt to give a count to these crimes, a texture to the experiences of those who survive...
    www.smh.com.au
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
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  • 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
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  • Medium

    Legends, One-Club Men And Journeymen

    An attempt to visually represent the careers of — almost — all the football players in the last century. "Legends, One-club men and Journeymen" is a visual essay that is both a guided tour...
    futbolismo.it
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    Tour De Drugs - Data Narrative

    The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France. Due to the intense nature of the sport, doping has been long associated with the race. While doping in...
    www.behance.net
    Longlist Student Shortlist Community Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    IBM Technology Garden

    IBM Technology Garden is a realtime installation bringing Wimbledon tennis Championships data to life. Data from match and player statistics, AI video highlights, weather forecasts, cyber security...
    variable.io
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Bronze
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  • Medium

    Wedding Data Viz: How We Designed For Feelings

    For our wedding, we created a network graph of the connections between all of our guests and designed individualized data-driven badges that highlighted each guests’ unique relationship to us, the...
    medium.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    Commute

    Commute is an immersive experience exploring the soundprint of a public transport line. It makes you see and hear the noise that surrounds us in daily commute by combining data visualisation and...
    commute.dataveyes.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    China's Muslim Gulag: Turning The Desert Into Detention Camps

    China is accused of incarcerating hundreds of thousands of Muslims in detention camps that are rising from the desert sands in Xinjiang. A forensic analysis of satellite data covering 39 of these...
    www.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    Mercator. It’s A Flat, Flat World

    The interactive digital special project "Mercator. It’s a Flat, Flat World" tells the story of a famous map, published in 1569 by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator. We describe the...
    mercator.tass.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    She Said More

    Using over half a million articles from The Guardian we show the change in the newspaper’s coverage of women within sections of the paper relating to the creative industries. The gender mix has...
    data-viz.nesta.org.uk
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    How Kerala’s Dams Failed To Prevent Catastrophe

    More than 5 million people in Kerala were affected and over 200 were killed amid torrential rain and floods in August 2018. The flooding, dubbed the worst to hit the southern state in nearly a...
    fingfx.thomsonreuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    Super Kamiokande

    This stunning piece of digital journalism is the result of a successful collaboration between the ABC's Tokyo bureau and the Story Lab team here in Australia. Super Kamiokande is a giant science...
    www.abc.net.au
    Longlist Shortlist Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    Codex Atlanticus

    This interactive visualization is accessible through a website or at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana the Milanese museum, which conserves Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus. The project opens up new...
    www.codex-atlanticus.it
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    Live BMX Data Visualization

    The Royal Dutch Cycling Federation wanted to attract more people to the fascinating sport of Freestyle BMX. Targeting live spectators and jury members, we developed an engaging platform that...
    www.cleverfranke.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    How God Has Spoken: Before And After The Silence

    The aim was to visualise the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible... no pressure! An epiphany came to visualise God speaking either side of that silence. Data was...
    www.theinfographicbible.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Bronze
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  • 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
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  • Medium

    Starbucks Data Wall Experience

    To celebrate Starbucks’ first ever store in Italy, the Starbucks Reserve Roastery Milan in Piazza Cordusio, Accurat designed a massive floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall visual representation of...
    www.accurat.it
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    Counting The Cost Of The Education Revolution

    In 2008, the Australian government announced an “education revolution” -- a fundamental overhaul of a school funding system that had been in place in essence since 1974. Billions were poured into...
    www.abc.net.au
    Longlist Shortlist Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    Visualizing The History Of Fugazi

    A series of visualizations on the history of the D.C. punk band Fugazi, produced first as a newsprint fanzine, and then as large format prints for an exhibition. Using data the band themselves...
    www.carniklirs.com
    Longlist Shortlist Student Winners Gold
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  • Medium

    Flowmap.blue

    Flowmap.blue is a free and open source flow map visualization tool. It is designed for representing aggregated numbers of movements between geographic locations. People from different parts of the...
    flowmap.blue
    Visualization & Information Design Longlist Shortlist Winners Bronze
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  • Medium

    What People In Switzerland Worry About

    Every summer, the gfs.bern research institute is commissioned by Credit Suisse to ask the Swiss public what they are worried about. For decades, unemployment was the unbeaten number one - even...
    www.swissinfo.ch
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    Drowning In Plastic: Visualising The World’s Addiction To Plastic Bottles

    Around the world, almost 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and they are having a devastating effect on the environment. The Reuters Graphics team visualised plastic bottle...
    graphics.reuters.com
    Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    Plot Parade

    Plotparade.com is an experimental chart creator tool that lets you create beautiful, unusual looking infographics from simple datasets. It offers a handful of design templates: pick one, copy and...
    plotparade.com
    Visualization & Information Design Longlist Shortlist Winners Silver
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  • Medium

    How Life Has Changed For People Your Age

    In Australia, the debate about the generational divide is as heated as it ever was, stoked by stereotypical media-baiting — from the Baby Boomers who wrecked the world and stole all the wealth, to...
    www.abc.net.au
    Longlist Shortlist Outstanding Studio Winners
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  • Medium

    3,121 Desperate Journeys: Exposing A Week Of Chaos Under Trump's Zero Tolerance

    The result of a three-month investigation, 3,121 desperate journeys breaks down the real cost of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. The piece aims to tell the story of just one week...
    www.theguardian.com
    Longlist Shortlist Bronze Winners
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