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词条 Ali Almossawi
释义

  1. Illustrated books

  2. Data visualization

  3. Personal life

  4. Publications

     Publications by Almossawi  Publications with contributions by Almossawi 

  5. References

  6. External links

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| nationality = Bahrain
| birth_name = Ali Almossawi
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| notableworks = An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
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| years_active = 2013 to present
}}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[1][2] and was formerly employed as a data visualization engineer by Mozilla.[3] He has stated that his day job helps his writing by constraining his time.[4]

Illustrated books

Almossawi published the first edition of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments in July 2013,[5] by sharing it online for free and supporting the project with donations and sales of a print edition.[6] In December 2013, the book was acquired by Experiment Books who released a second edition in September 2014.[7][8]

Volunteers have translated the book into twelve languages and the book's website has been visited by 2.6 million visitors.[9] The book has appeared in print in Russian, Italian, Korean, Slovak, French, Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, and Brazilian Portuguese.

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.[10] He also shared that it was to be translated into Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Complex Chinese, Russian, and Turkish.

Internet pioneer Vint Cerf described the book as "one of the more clever ways of introducing computational thinking to the general public" and MIT Media Lab professor and physicist Cesar Hidalgo described it as "perfect for anyone wanting to understand the basics of Computer Science."[11]

Data visualization

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.[12][13] His visualization of the Big Five US publishers and their imprints was featured on Tor and shared over 5,000 times on Facebook.[14] His visualization of the education level of world leaders has received over 47,000 visits and was among 20 great visualizations of 2012.[15][16] In 2015, Almossawi gave his only recorded talk on the practice of data visualization at Google's San Francisco office.[17]

Personal life

{{as of|2012}}, Almossawi lives in San Francisco, California with his wife and daughter.[1] He has stated that he identifies with humanist values.[4]

Publications

Publications by Almossawi

  • {{cite book |title= An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments |publisher= Experiment Books |date= 2014 |isbn= 978-0989931205 }}
  • {{cite book |title= Bad Choices |location= United States |publisher= Viking |date= 2017 |isbn= 978-0735222120}}
  • {{cite book |title= Bad Choices |location= United Kingdom |publisher= John Murray |date= 2017 |isbn= 978-1473650763}}

Publications with contributions by Almossawi

  • "Visualizing ambiguity in an era of data abundance and very large software systems" by Almossawi in New challenges for data design. London, UK: Springer, 2015. {{ISBN|978-1-4471-6595-8}}.
  • "Don’t Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too" by Almossawi in Bright.[18]

References

1. ^1 {{cite web| first =Ali | last = Almossawi | title = LinkedIn |url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/almossawi | publisher = LinkedIn |date=December 1, 1984 |accessdate=September 7, 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/alialmossawi|title=Twitter|publisher=twitter.com|date=September 9, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2143928/ali-almossawi|title=Author's profile on Penguin Random House|publisher=penguinrandomhouse.com|date=April 7, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
4. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6407oc/im_the_creator_of_an_illustrated_book_of_bad/|title=Reddit Ask Me Anything|publisher=reddit.com|date=April 7, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://bookofbadarguments.com/thebook/#amazon_pre|title=Book of Bad Arguments first edition|publisher=bookofbadarguments.com|date=May 31, 2014|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.twit.tv/tri/306|title="Triangulation" This Week in Tech|publisher=twit.tv|date=July 17, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://theexperimentpublishing.com/tag/ali-almossawi|title=The Experiment Publishing|publisher=theexperimentpublishing.com|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://bookofbadarguments.com/thebook|title=Book of Bad Arguments|publisher=bookofbadarguments.com|date=May 31, 2014|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=https://almossawi.com|title=Ali Almossawi|publisher=almossawi.com|date=September 9, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/almossawi/posts/1430501800323597|title=Author's page on Facebook|publisher=facebook.com|date=December 14, 2016|accessdate=December 14, 2016}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://bookofbadchoices.com/|title=Book of Bad Choices|publisher=bookofbadchoices.com|date=September 9, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=http://sdtimes.com/invision-releases-inspect-photoshop-jetbrains-gogland-ide-mozilla-firefox-hardware-report-sd-times-news-digest-dec-15-2016/|title=InVision releases Inspect for Photoshop, JetBrains Gogland IDE, and Mozilla Firefox Hardware Report—SD Times news digest: Dec. 15, 2016|publisher=sdtimes.com|date=December 15, 2016|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2016/12/16/mozilla-firefox-windows-7-old-pc/|title= Most Firefox users are running Windows 7 on dated PCs|publisher=engadget.com|date=December 16, 2016|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/2016/10/20/one-handy-chart-of-the-big-5-book-publishers-and-their-imprints/|title=Finally a Handy Chart of the "Big 5" Book Publishers and Their Imprints|publisher=tor.com|date=October 20, 2016|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
15. ^{{cite web|url=https://visual.ly/users/almossawi/portfolio|title=How educated are world leaders?|publisher=visual.ly.com|date=December 15, 2012|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://visual.ly/users/almossawi/portfolio|title=20 Great Interactive Visualizations of 2012|publisher=visual.ly|date=December 20, 2012|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQQS3ggSySU|title=D3 in Practice|publisher=youtube.com|date=August 26, 2015|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=https://brightreads.com/dont-just-teach-kids-how-to-code-teach-them-algorithms-too-cfa66941d896. |title=Don't Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too|publisher=brightreads.com|date=May 8, 2017|accessdate=September 9, 2017}}

External links

  • {{Official website|https://almossawi.com/}}
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