Today, Google announced that one of my KML visualisations won a prize in the KML in Research contest . The animated prism map shows Global Infant Mortality from 1960 to 2005. The statistical data was downloaded from UNdata , a great resource for global statistics. The statistics can be explored in time and space. Click here to download the KMZ file. My dissertation, Using KML for Thematic Mapping , was also awarded the MSc Dissertation Prize at University of Edinburgh. The second part of my dissertation gives a detailed description of the Thematic Mapping Engine, and can be downloaded from thematicmapping.org .