Ali Almossawi

In 2016, Almossawi announced that his second book Bad Choices, an introduction to computer science, had been acquired by Penguin Random House and was to be published the following year. He also shared that it was to be translated into Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Complex Chinese, Russian, and Turkish.

Almossawi published the first edition of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments in July 2013, by sharing it online for free and supporting the project with donations and sales of a print edition. In December 2013, the book was acquired by Experiment Books who released a second edition in September 2014.

Almossawi's data visualization work has received press coverage. The Firefox Hardware Report, which he codeveloped while at Mozilla, was covered by Engadget and SD Times. His visualization of the Big Five US publishers and their imprints was featured on Tor and shared over 5,000 times on Facebook. His visualization of the education level of world leaders has received over 47,000 visits and was among 20 great visualizations of 2012. In 2015, Almossawi gave his only recorded talk on the practice of data visualization at Google's San Francisco office.

As of 2012, Almossawi lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and daughter. He has stated that he identifies with humanist values.

Ali Almossawi (born December 1, 1984) is a San Francisco-based author of books on critical thinking and computer science education, and the creator of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments. He is also a principal engineer at Apple and was formerly employed as a data visualization engineer by Mozilla. He has stated that his day job helps his writing by constraining his time.