One of the biggest problems facing Italy is the phenomenon of organised crime. Freelance information designer, Federica Fragapane, uses data visualization to focus in on the issue. Organized Crime in Northern Italy is a unique tool that enables users to explore organised...

Imagine a world where natural resources can no longer provide for the human population. Now imagine this happening in just 35 years’ time. Gemma Warriner did just that for her student project, Twenty-Fifty. Over a series of eight data visualization posters, Gemma exp...

Data visualization tends to tell stories you weren't expecting. Dénes Csala found this in his project, Religious Diversity in Romania, which uses colour wheels and maps to see the religious breakdown of Romania in new ways. One of the visualization’s key findings is ...

See your social media presence in beautiful, creature-like form with Stefan Wagner’s mesmerising live data visualization project, Sociotope. Sucking in data from an ‘online identity’ on Facebook or Twitter - be it a user, page or hashtag - Sociotope turns it into a tentacle...

Fancy seeing some of your own data viz on here? Then let us know about it! Simply send an email to editor@informationisbeautifulawards.com with: a link to the ‘live’ version of your piece an image or screenshot that we can use on our website a brief description of...

With film fever in full swing, go and check out Silk’s awesome data viz project Women in Film, which tests gender bias in over 5,000 movies released in the last 100 years. A film can only ‘pass’ if it features at least two named women who talk to each other about something ...

It often seems like the debate over climate change is stuck. That’s something the editors at Bloomberg View are hoping to change with their latest interactive offering, Climate Change in Perspective. The piece does a great job of combining the bigger picture - as in thei...

5.25 trillion pieces of plastic weighing more than 268,000 tonnes are floating around the world’s oceans. And this is what it looks like. Sailing Seas of Plastic is an interactive map of global marine plastic distribution created by New Zealand-based data viz team, Dumpa...

Terrorist groups continue to dominate the news. But which have been around the longest? And which are the most deadly? Data viz agency Periscopic decided to find out as part of a project for the Global Terrorism Database. The result? A World of Terror, a website visua...

David Leonhardt and his team at The Upshot have worked with Climate Central to make this incredible interactive dataviz showing the number of people that will be affected by regular flooding in the next 100 years. It’s a great example of how uncertainty can be factored into...

Living with a large migrant population tends to persuade people against immigration. Right? Wrong. Gavin Jackson, stats journalist at the Financial Times, decided to give UK views on immigration the data viz treatment. The results suggest the need for a re-think on the r...

Launch all 1,200 of the satellites currently orbiting Earth with David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz’s absorbing interactive data viz published on Quartz this week. First decide whether to view satellites according to their purpose, country, age or user. Then set the satellites...

We love the user-friendly simplicity of UK Temperature History, an interactive data viz by Brighton-based designer, Peter Cook. Over 100 years of temperatures in Blighty can be sorted in order of date, hottest months, coldest months and hottest years on average. The warm...