Top Global Data Visualization Awards in 2024!

Practice, participate, prevail!

Alex Kolokolov

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Make Your Data Speak

5 min readMar 15, 2024

Introduction

Data visualization is becoming increasingly important in the modern world, where the volume and complexity of data continue to grow. Awards in the field of data visualization play a key role in recognizing and rewarding innovations that help us better understand and utilize data in various areas of life and business.

In this article, we present a list of the top global awards in data visualization, highlighting their significance and contribution to the development of this dynamic field. Additionally, we will discuss our international Make Your Data Speak award, held for the second consecutive year, and invite you to participate!

Information is Beautiful Awards

Date and Venue: Annually online (August-September).
Brief Description: The Information is Beautiful Awards recognizes outstanding achievements in the field of information visualization and information design.
Target Audience: Professionals in data visualization, designers, and journalists aiming to create beautiful and informative visualizations.
Unique Advantages: This award acknowledges visualizations that are not only visually appealing, but also have profound meaning and impact on public opinion.
Participation Cost: $0–10–50–100–200
Official Website: Information Is Beautiful Awards

Make Your Data Speak Dataviz Award

Date and Venue: Annually online (April).
Brief Description: The Make Your Data Speak Dataviz Award recognizes innovative and creative approaches to data visualization & Business Intelligence.
Target Audience: Professionals in data analytics, design, and journalism seeking to maximize the effective use of data.
Key Categories: Data visualizations, Data-art, Data Storytelling, dashboards, analytical reports, AI implementation in Dataviz & BI and other.
Unique Advantages: This is a unique opportunity to see best practices in data visualization and gain inspiration from the work of top experts in the field.
Participation Cost: $25
Official Website: Make Your Data Speak Awards

The Pudding Cup

Date and Location: Annually, online.
Brief Description: The Pudding Cup celebrates outstanding achievements in data visualization, data journalism and storytelling, focusing on projects that creatively engage with data to tell compelling stories.
Intended Audience: Data enthusiasts, storytellers, designers, and journalists who are passionate about creating visually compelling narratives using data.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: The Pudding Cup

World Data Visualization Prize

Date and Venue: Annually, online.
Brief Description: The World Data Visualization Prize is an international award that encourages data visualization leading to understanding global issues and solutions.
Target Audience: Data professionals, activists, and public figures aiming to use data visualization to raise awareness and draw attention to important topics.
Key Categories: Data visualizations aimed at addressing specific global issues such as climate change, poverty, and inequality — at different formats — interactive, static.
Unique Advantages: This prize provides recognition for work that helps draw attention to global issues and contributes to finding solutions.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: Awards | World Government Summit

Digital Humanities Awards — Data Visualization Category

Date and Venue: Annually online (March).
Brief Description: DH Awards is an annual prize designed to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of digital humanities research, including data visualization.
Target Audience: Professionals in digital humanities research, including researchers, academics, and data visualization professionals.
Unique Advantages: This award provides recognition for work in the field of humanities research that includes data visualization as a key tool for analysis and communication.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: DH Awards

IEEE PacificVis Visual Data Storytelling Contest

Date and Venue: Annually, dates & venue may vary.
Brief Description: The IEEE PacificVis Visual Data Storytelling Contest aims to highlight outstanding work in visual data visualization and storytelling.
Target Audience: Data visualization professionals, researchers, and students working with data visualization.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: IEEE PacificVis Visual Data Storytelling Contest

Dashboard Super Star

Date and Venue: Online, not annually (February)
Brief Description: Dashboard Super Star is an annual competition aimed at recognizing and rewarding outstanding achievements in creating and using dashboards.
Target Audience: Data analytics, data visualization, and project management professionals.
Key Categories: Dashboards in various industries and business areas.
Unique Advantages: The competition provides an opportunity to stand out among other professionals in the field of dashboard creation and receive recognition for their work.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: Dashboard Super Star

Shorty Awards

Date and Venue: Annually, online (May).
Brief Description: The Shorty Awards is a social media industry-recognized award, including achievements in data visualization and information graphics.
Target Audience: Media, marketing, and data visualization professionals.
Unique Advantages: This award provides recognition for creative and effective approaches to data visualization within the context of social media.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: The Shorty Awards

The One Show

Date and Venue: Annually, at various locations worldwide (January)
Brief Description: The One Show is a prestigious award in the field of advertising and marketing, which also recognizes achievements in data visualization and information graphics.
Target Audience: Professionals in advertising, marketing, and data visualization.
Unique Advantages: This award provides an opportunity to receive recognition for the visual aspects of advertising campaigns and projects.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: The One Show

Chart Champ

Date and Venue: Annually, online (October).
Brief Description: Chart Champ is a competition aimed at highlighting and recognizing the best data visualizations created in various business and research fields.
Target Audience: Data analysts, data visualizers, and business analysis professionals.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: Chart Champ

Data Comms Awards

Date and Venue: Annually, online (August-February).
Brief Description: Data Comms Awards is a prestigious award aimed at recognizing best practices in data visualization and communication.
Target Audience: Professionals in media, marketing, communications, and data visualization.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: Data Comms Awards

DataConnect

Date and Venue: Annually, the event is held online (February).
Brief Description: DataConnect is a competition aimed at identifying and recognizing innovative projects in data visualization and analytics.
Target Audience: Professionals in data analytics, data visualization, marketing, and research.
Key Categories: Best projects in data visualization contributing to decision-making and business development.
Participation Cost: Free.
Official Website: Data Viz Competition DataConnect.

Conclusion

Our article provided an extensive overview of global awards in the field of data visualization, including various competitions and prizes that recognize outstanding achievements in this area. We discussed prestigious awards such as the Information is Beautiful Awards, World Data Visualization Prize, DH Awards, and many others.

Special attention was given to the Make Your Data Speak Dataviz Award. This award stands out for its unique approach to data visualization and aims to encourage those who strive to make data understandable and accessible to a wide audience.

We are now accepting applications, and the submission period will close on April 1, 2024. The award ceremony for the winners will take place at the conference on May 10!

If you are interested at data visualization conferences — check my article — Top online conferences on Data Visualization in 2024

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