In Images: Top Winners of 'Information Is Beautiful' Awards

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Flowing Data

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In the Dataviz website category of the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, FlowingData, capturing gold, helps everyone understand it from different points of view.

Visualising Data

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Winning silver in the Dataviz website category, VisualisingData.com provides a rich variety of content that chars the development of the visualization field while profiling professional services offered by Visualising Data Ltd.

Data USA

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Bringing U.S. government data to the people, Data USA, a free and open source platform, combines data from many U.S. statistical agencies in close to 2 million visualizations. The site snagged gold in the the Commercial/Biz Project category of the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

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IBM Watson News Explorer

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Using AlchemyData News API to construct a news information network presenting massive volumes of news results in an understandable fashion, the IBM Watson News Explorer captured silver Commercial/Biz Project category. Natural language revealing interconnected heterogenous details accompanied by linked visualizations encourage exploration and discovery on the site.

The sum of the parts

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This chart expressing China's rapid economic growth garnered gold in the Community Awards category of the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

WTFViz

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Nonsensical infographics and dataviz from WTF Visualizations, snagging silver in the Community Awards category, draw a Twitter community into discussion of why.

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The BMJ Infographics

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Coming from the basis that visual presentations can help consumers find needed information quickly and easily, Will Stahl-Timmins with BMJ Infographics was chosen as a Rising Star in the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

Olympic Feathers

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(Image credit: Nadieh Bremer - Design concept, data wrangling and coding)

Also chosen as a Rising Star, Nadieh Bremer created this visualization of all Olympic gold medal winners since 1896 (5100 in all).

Income Inequality

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Receiving a Student Award, Herwig Scherabon created two large prints to express income inequality in Los Angeles and Chicago.

Garbage sorting

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An assignment for a class, Pei Lei Ye's garbage recycling chart earned a Student Award from the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards.

Mindy Weisberger
Mindy Weisberger
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Mindy Weisberger is an editor at Scholastic and a former Live Science channel editor and senior writer. She has reported on general science, covering climate change, paleontology, biology, and space. Mindy studied film at Columbia University; prior to Live Science she produced, wrote and directed media for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide, earning awards such as the CINE Golden Eagle and the Communicator Award of Excellence. Her writing has also appeared in Scientific American, The Washington Post and How It Works Magazine.