Stories of the Shortlist
Some important topics have really grabbed the imagination of creators this year – explore key stories with shortlisted examples from each below:
Terror, war & violence
Want to fix gun violence in America? Go local by The Guardian
On Their Way: the Journey of Foreign Fighters by DensityDesign Lab
Climate
How a Melting Arctic Changes Everything by Bloomberg Graphics
The Point Of No Return - How the world is adapting to climate change by DensityDesign Lab
Government, elections, presidents & politics
Gerrymandering: A Nation Divided, but Who's Drawing the Lines? By Jory Fleming
Trump
How popular is Donald Trump? By FiveThirtyEight
10,000 words ranked according to their Trumpiness by Quartz
Hip-Hop Is Turning On Donald Trump By FiveThirtyEight
Music
The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big by The Pudding
OddityViz – a visual deconstruction of Space Oddity by Miriam Quick & Valentina D’Efilippo
Han Chinese Opera by Peijie Li
An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton by Shirley Wu
Hip-Hop Is Turning On Donald Trump By FiveThirtyEight
Personal data / quantified self
How are you today? By Zeit Online
Trolling & cyberbullying
Cyberbullying and Hate Speech by Brandwatch / Ditch the Label
What’s it like to get trolled all day long? By Harry Stevens & Piyush Aggarwal
Gender
Farmers in the Loneliness of Onion Fields by Agnès Stienne, VisionsCarto
Global Gender Gap Report Browser by WEC, Two-N
Beyond XX and YY: Visualizing Sex and Gender by Pitch Interactive
City of Women by Rebecca Solnit
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters by The Pudding
Creative visualizations rendered in unusual ways
AtF Spark - Code-free Sparkline Typeface by After the Flood
Are you sure you want to smoke? By Giacomo Flaim, Politecnico of Milan
Discover each category...
Arts, entertainment & pop culture
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The public vote gets added to the decisions from our 20+ panel of expert judges. Each category has three prizes - gold, ($1,000), silver ($500) and bronze ($250) - plus numerous special awards. All winners receive a trophy.
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