Ali Almossawi is the creator and maintainer of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments, which has been read by 2.4 million readers and translated into 18 languages, 12 of which were done by volunteers from across the world. His second book, Bad Choices, is an illustrated guide to algorithmic thinking and is published by Viking in North America and John Murray in the UK and British Commonwealth.Ali formerly worked as a data visualizer on the Firefox team and is an alumnus of MIT's Engineering Systems Division and Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. Previous stints included working as a research associate at Harvard and as a collaborator with the MIT Media Lab.