The Winners: People, Language & Identity
These works won awards for their excellent visualizations on being, gender, language and (the quantified) self.
GOLD WINNER
A View On Despair by Sonja Kuijpers at Studio Terp
A deceptively dark data-art landscape representing a novel and deeply personal depiction of suicide in the Netherlands in 2017.
SILVER WINNER
She Said More by Dr Cath Sleeman and Nesta
Big data and machine learning shed new lexical light on gender imbalance, focusing here on the words journalists use whilst writing about creativity.
BRONZE WINNER
Going Gray by Simon Scarr & team for Reuters
Throughout the world, people are living longer. These graphics explore the occasionally disturbing implications of an ageing population, focusing specifically on Japan.