The winning caption for the December contest was “Leprechauns wasted no time changing their ways when they heard ‘data is the new gold’." written by Brian King, a student at Rice University. Brian’s caption invites conversation about the importance of data in today's society and how it is used as a currency amongst businesses.
Honorable mentions this month go to Ciaran Evans from Wake Forest University and Douglas VanDerwerken from the US Naval Academy for captions related to the value of good data visualizations (“The true treasure is the graphs we made along the way” and “A well-made figure is pure gold!” respectively).