Award trophies from the 2024 Information is Beautiful Awards and tabletop holders featuring shortlisted works.
Special Awards
Selected from the pool of all submissions:
Most Beautiful Award
Community Vote
Outstanding Studio
Impressive Individual
Rising Star
Accepting nominations and selected from the nominees:
Impactful Community Leader
Test of Time
Award Categories
Arts, Entertainment & Culture
Humanitarian
Leisure, Games & Sport
People, Language & Identity
Unusual
Current Affairs & Politics
Places, Spaces & Environment
Science, Technology & Health
Business Analytics
Divyanshi Wadhwa on behalf of the World Bank receiving the Most Beautiful award for the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 during the 2023 Information is Beautiful Awards ceremony.
Curious what kinds of visualizations fit into each category?
Below, you’ll find a list of illustrative subjects of visualizations that could be submitted in each category. These examples are meant to inspire and provide some clarity, but not to constrain!
Arts, Entertainment & Culture: Visual arts, artists, music, literature, popular culture, celebrities, movies
Business Analytics: Finance, operations, marketing, non-profit management, business dashboards, profit and loss, balance sheets, human resources, strategy and planning
Current Affairs & Politics: National and global political stories, elections, political party analysis, economics, immigration and migration patterns
Humanitarian: Human migration, international development, human impact of climate change, broad themes related to nonprofit response and support
Leisure, Games & Sport: Professional sports statistics, analysis of individual sports, professional athletes, esports, board games, leisure activities
People, Language & Identity: Demographics, linguistics, quantified self, personal stories related to individual identity, sociology, astrology
Places, Spaces & Environment: Data stories about specific locations (cities, parks, etc.), land use, natural resources, topics relating to the natural world (oceans, water, forests, deserts, etc.), natural disasters, conservation, climate change, signage, way-showing systems,
Science, Technology & Health: Biology, chemistry, physics, robotics, astronomy, medicine, public health, computer science, hardware, software, internet of things, mathematics
Unusual: Unique mediums (sonification, physical visualization installations), data art, personal stories, interesting datasets