Globally, there are 76.7 million illiterate women, compared with 48.8 million men. In order to bring this inequality to attention, UNESCO launched Left Behind, a powerful web interactive on girls' education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The tool provides an invaluable starting ...

Air quality is a big deal in Salt Lake City, where the mountains frequently disappear behind curtains of smog, a pattern known to locals as “the inversion”. Salt Lake City resident and award-winning designer, Yvette Shen, created this awesome scrolling interactive to show h...

All the results are in for our food poisoning challenge! We’re hugely excited to announce the following winners and runners-up, who will all be getting a cash prize for their sterling work. And don’t despair if you missed out this time - we’ll be running a brand new chal...

We are super-excited to announce that the interactive, static and napkin shortlists are all now live! We owe a major thank you to everyone who entered our food poisoning challenge. Y’all turned out an amazing variety of work using a grizzly dataset, from the world’s most de...

Ellie Balk and Nathan Affield are raising money to create their next Visualize Pi mural with high school students from East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The piece, Visualize Pi Perspective, will show the mathematical constant in one point perspective to create an illusion of the...

Four in five US adults have no idea how their tax dollars are spent. Matthew - creator of data blog fishything - decided to put that right. His infographic, Where do your earnings really go? shows how the US government spends federal taxes each month. The results are ...

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...