Get to know 7 more of our accomplished judges.

Bidisha is a journalist and broadcaster/presenter for BBC radio and TV, Channel 4 News and Sky News, specialising in human rights and social justice on the one hand and the arts and culture on the other. She has recently published Asylum and Exile: Hidden Voices, and directed the short film An Impossible Poison.

@Bidisha_online | Bidisha Online

 

Andy Cotgreave is a co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, columnist for InfoWorld and Technical Evangelist at Tableau, and formerly an analyst at the University of Oxford. He speaks at conferences around the world, helping people on a mission to see and understand data.

@acotgrave | Tableau

 

Nigel Hurst is CEO at the Saatchi Gallery, which he joined as curator in 1995. He has worked on major exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hamburger Bahnhof, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York.

Nigel Hurst | Saatchi Gallery

 

Gyorgyi Galick is Senior Design Researcher at Future Cities Catapult. She has delivered projects in corporate, governmental and non-governmental sectors, with a focus on social change and the environment. 

GyorgyiGalick.com |  Future Cities Catapult

 

Fernanda B. Viégas is Co-Leader at the Google “Big Picture” data visualization group. With Martin Wattenberg, she founded Flowing Media, Inc. and led IBM's Visual Communication Lab, where they created Many Eyes, a ground-breaking experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. 

@viegasf | Google “Big Picture”

 

David McCandless is an author, data-journalist and information designer. His blog and best-selling books Information Is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful are dedicated to visualising ideas, issues, knowledge and data. He is Creative Director of the Information is Beautiful Awards. 

@mccandelish | Information is Beautiful

 

Julien Guillot is a data Journalist and cofounder at BiG Infographics Agency in Paris. BiG works mainly with french newspaper Libération and Cité des sciences museum.  

@BIGinfographie | BiG Infographics Agency

 

View the whole series:

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

 

:: Meet all 2017's judges

:: View the Shortlist in full

:: Brush shoulders with the winners at our London ceremony Tues 28 Nov