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

Terre Urbaine

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(Image credit: Video, motion design and sound by Escalenta : http://www.escalenta.com/mutations-urbaines/ Data mining and visualisations by BiG : http://big.paris)

Awarded Best Non-English Language in the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, a video data visualization express the urbanization of Earth over time. See the video here.

Read the article about the awards and the top winners.

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.