Information is Beautiful Awards 2018: The Winners
Let's raise a glass to dataviz that pushes boundaries, illuminates truth, and celebrates beauty. Thank you to everyone who joined us on the Information is Beautiful Awards journey this year - now see which entries took home trophies at tonight's spectacular ceremony.
Arts, Entertainment & Culture
GOLD WINNER: Frames of Mind by Alberto Lucas López for National Geographic
SILVER WINNER: Coins - A Journey Through a Rich Cultural Collection by University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
BRONZE WINNER: Quartetto Sincronie performing Beethoven op. 74 num. 10 by Angela Testa, Manlio Massimetti & Prof. Elena Ippoliti - Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Leisure, Games & Sport
GOLD WINNER: Reimagine the Game by Signal Noise
SILVER WINNER: 20 Years 20 Titles by SRF Data
BRONZE WINNER: A Night Under the Stars by Jordan Vincent
Maps, Places & Spaces
GOLD WINNER: Here’s How America Uses Its Land by Dave Merrill & Lauren Leatherby at Bloomberg LP
SILVER WINNER: Italia: The Airship Crash Chronicle by TASS Russian News Agency
BRONZE WINNER: Streetscapes - Mozart, Marx & A Dictator by Zeit Online
People, Language & Identity
GOLD WINNER: Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016 by Pedro M Cruz & team with Northeastern University & National Geographic
SILVER WINNER: What 1.2m parliamentary speeches can teach us about gender representation by Durand D’souza with The Pudding & 50:50 Parliament
JOINT BRONZE: Casting Shakespeare by Eric Lin
JOINT BRONZE: Women's Pockets Are Inferior by Jan Diehm & Amber Thomas at The Pudding
Politics & Global
GOLD WINNER: Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless by Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu with The Guardian
SILVER WINNER: The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant by Anna Flagg
BRONZE WINNER: Elected Leaders are Making the World Less Democratic by Lauren Leatherby & Mira Rojanasakul at Bloomberg
Science & Technology
GOLD WINNER: What Happens to the Plastic We throw Out by Brian T. Jacobs, Jason Treat & Kennedy Elliott with National Geographic
SILVER WINNER: Dynamic Planet Interactive Scientific Poster by Science Communication Lab
BRONZE WINNER: Artificial Senses by Kim Albrecht with MetaLAB Harvard
Unusual
GOLD WINNER: MULTIPLICITY by Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur & Christian Laesser
SILVER WINNER: DayDohViz by Amy Cesal
BRONZE WINNER: The Long Run by Will Stahl-Timmins & team for The BMJ
Humanitarian
GOLD WINNER: Life in the Camps by Weiyi Cai, Simon Scarr, Darren Schuettler for Reuters
SILVER WINNER: Rape in India by Aditya Jain
BRONZE WINNER: Mass Exodus by Weiyi Cai, Christian Inton, Simon Scarr, Jin Wu & Karishma Singh for Reuters
Visualization & Information Design
GOLD WINNER: Kepler.gl by Shan He & team
SILVER WINNER: Chartable. A Blog by Datawrapper.
BRONZE WINNER: From Data to Viz by Yan Holtz & Conor Healy
Breaking News
GOLD WINNER: How the Thai Cave Rescue Mission Unfolded by South China Morning Post
SILVER WINNER: What Lies in Irma's Path by FiveThirtyEight
BRONZE WINNER: Trump's Trade War by Manuel Bortoletti
Student
JOINT WINNER: 30° by Stephan Schakulat, Mathias Foot, Janna Nikoleit & Franziska Rast
JOINT WINNER: Shifting Gears: Visualizing Cycle Rides by Hardik Chandrahas
Most Beautiful
Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration 1790-2016 by Pedro M Cruz & team with Northeastern University & National Geographic
Non-English Language
Satellites: 60 Years in Orbit by Rossiya Segodnya
Community Vote
Historia de Zainab by Visualizar
Impressive Individual
Lena Groeger: What Happened to all the jobs Trump promised? - alongside a large body of work for ProPublica and other publications.
Rising Star
Roni Levit with Physical Diagram - Interventions In Public Space
Outstanding Outfit
Reuters Graphics Team, for entries including Mass Exodus
