The Shortlist: People, Language & Identity
Peruse all shortlisted entries in our People, Language & Identity category, for graphics about gender, identity, people, language & the (quantified) self.
By New Yorker - Rebecca Solnit
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters
By The Puddling - Amanda Shendruk
The great American word mapper
By Quartz - Nikhil Sonnad
What’s it like to get trolled all day long?
By Hindustan Times - Harry Stevens & Piyush Aggarwal
Are you sure you want to smoke?
By Giacomo Flaim
By Datasketches - Nadieh Bremer
Farmers in the Loneliness of Onion Fields
By VisionsCarto - Agnès Stienne
By David Ding
Trump to reinstate US military ban on transgender people
By CNN - Jeremy Diamond
Beyond XX and YY: Visualizing Sex and Gender
By Pitch Interactive - Amanda Montañez, Wesley Grubbs, Mladen Balog
By Alice Thudt
A Statistical Dive into Urban-Rural Prejudice
By Zeit Online - Christian Bangel & team
By Brandwatch / Ditch The Label
How do you draw a circle? We analyzed 100,000 drawings. How does culture shape our instincts?
By Quartz - Thu-Huong Ha & Nikhil Sonnad
By Zeit Online - Julian Stahnke, Tom Lazar, Philip Faigle & Fabian Mohr
By Nadieh Bremer, Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers
By Hindustan Times - Manas Sharma and Prawesh Lama
By Dominikus Baur & Daniel Goddemeyer
The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students
By Alvin Chang
:: See the full 2017 Shortlist
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- voting closes Fri 27 Oct 11.59pm PST
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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:: How to vote on the shortlist (deadline Sun 29 Oct, 11.59pm PST)
:: Brush shoulders with the winners at our London ceremony Tues 29 Nov
:: Check out the Longlist
:: See 2016's winners