This year’s Information is Beautiful Awards is a treasure trove of outstanding dataviz. Thanks to our esteemed sponsor Kantar for supporting creativity in information design, providing $30k in prizes to the winners below.

GOLD – Vaccines and Infectious Diseases by Dov Friedman and Tynan Debold at The Wall Street Journal

SILVER – A World of Languages by Alberto Lucas Lopez, published by SCMP

BRONZE – Rise of Partisanship by Mauro Martino and Clio Andris

Honourable mention – Close The Gap by Studio Metric

GOLD – German Unification by Christian Bangel, Paul Blickle, Lisa Borgenheimer, Fabian Mohr, Julian Stahnke and Sascha Venohr, published by Zeit Online

SILVER – Why Pinellas County Is the Worst Place in Florida to Be Black and Go to Public School Nathaniel Lash, Martin Frobisher, Alexis N Sanchez, Michael LaForgia, published by The Tampa Bay Times

BRONZE – What’s Really Warming the World? by Eric Roston, Blacki Migliozzi, published by Bloomberg Business

Honourable mention – California’s Getting Fracked by Anna Flagg, Sarah Craig & Antonia Bruno, published by Faces of Fracking

GOLD – Rare Earth Elements by Mark-Jan Bludau

SILVER – UFO Sightings by John Nelson and IDV Solutions

BRONZE – Valar Morghulis by Shelly Tan and Alberto Cuadra for the Washington Post

GOLD – How Ebola Spreads by Bonnie Berkowitz and Lazario Gamio at The Washington Post

SILVER – The Counted: People Killed by Police in the United States in 2015 by Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, Jamiles Lartey, Ciara McCarthy, Kenan Davis, Rich Harris, Nadja Popovich, Kenton Powell, published by The Guardian

BRONZE (tied) – Job Market Tracker by Andrew Van Dam and Renee Lightner at The Wall Street Journal

BRONZE (tied) – Histography by Matan Stauber

GOLD – Visualising Data by Andy Kirk

SILVER – Flowing Data by Nathan Yau

BRONZE – Visualoop by Infogr.am and Tiago Veloso

Honourable mention – Visual Complexity by Manuel Lima

Internal Business Project

GOLD – London Squared Map: Making the City Easier to Read by Max Gadney, Mike Gallagher at After The Flood

SILVER (tied) – RPP Intranet by Robin Partington & Partners, Studio Baako

SILVER (tied) – DHL GoGreen Solutions Workbook by Monika Rasche

Commercial Client Project

GOLD – Migration in the Census and in the News by CLEVER°FRANKE, University of Sheffield, The Migration Observatory, VisualisingData

SILVER – Rent, Salary, Price of Houses by The Visual Agency

BRONZE – LA Dodgers Digital Trading Room by Marc Maleh, Damian Boyd-Boffa, Gene Perelson, and team

GOLD – The Fallen of WW2 by Neil Halloran

SILVER – How Many Trees Are There in World by Jan Willem Tulp of Tulp Interactive, published by Nature

BRONZE – Syrian War in 5 Minutes by Max Fisher and Johnny Harris, published by Vox

Honourable mention – Charting Culture by Maximilian Schich and Mauro Martino, published by Nature

GOLD – D3.js by Mike Bostock

SILVER – R by Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka

BRONZE – Tableau Public by Tableau

Honourable mention – Quadrigram by Quadrigram

GOLD – Accurat

SILVER – Domestic Data Streamers

BRONZE – Periscopic

Honourable mention – Clever Franke

GOLD – How To Build A Human by Eleanor Lutz

SILVER – What’s across the Ocean from You When You’re at the Beach by Weiyi (Dawn) Cai and Ana Swanson, published by Washington Post

BRONZE – The Dude Map: How Americans Refer to Their Bros by Nikhil Sonnad, published by Quartz

Honourable mention – Here’s How Much of Your Life the United States Has Been at War by Philip Bump, published by The Washington Post

Special awards

Student

WINNER – Sara Piccolomini for: Freedom in Countries, published by La Lettura

Best Team

WINNER – Berliner Morgen Post for: Here’s How Loud It Is at Your Doorstep; M29 – The Bus Route of Contrasts and Where the Population of Europe is Growing – and Where’s it’s Declining

Individual Achievement

GOLD – Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec

SILVER – On Broadway by Daniel Goddemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, Lev Manovich

BRONZE – 2014 Annual Report by Nicholas Felton

Honourable mention – Surgeon Scorecard by Sisi Wei, Olga Pierce and Marshall Allen, published by ProPublica

Community Vote

Based on entire 2015 Shortlist

GOLD – The World in 2015 by Peter Winfield, John Parker at The Economist

SILVER – Earth: a visualisation of Global Weather Conditions by Cameron Beccario

BRONZE – Drones by Michael Yap, Zoe Mendelson, Zack Davenport at Friends

Most Beautiful

The entry from the 2015 shortlist that received the most votes from judges & public combined

WINNER – Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec

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