Press, talks & writing
Book publications, interviews and talks, press for my books, mentions, personal essays, and smaller works and experiments.
Publications
- An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language (North America), published by Experiment Books
- The Point of Pointless Work, published by Cormorant Press
- Bad Choices (North America), published by Viking
- Bad Choices (UK and Commonwealth), published by John Murray
- Don't Just Teach Kids How to Code, Teach Them Algorithms, Too; Bright
- How Algorithmic Thinking Can Help You Think Smarter, Change This
- Logic: In the Direction of Truth, Imagine Magazine—The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
- An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (North America), published by The Experiment, distributed by Workman
- An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments (UK and Commonwealth), published by Scribe Publications, distributed by Penguin Books and Macmillan
- Book chapter: Visualizing ambiguity in an era of data abundance and very large engineering systems, New Challenges for Data Design, edited by David Bihanic, published by Springer-Verlag (London)
- The Data Visualization Revolution, co-authored with Cesar Hidalgo, Scientific American
- Going Beyond the One-Bit Democracy, co-authored with Cesar Hidalgo, Wired (UK)
- Analysis Tool Evaluation: Coverity Prevent, co-authored with Kelvin Lim and Tanmay Sinha, Carnegie Mellon
- MetricsGraphics.js - a lightweight graphics library built on D3, Mozilla Hacks
Interviews and talks
- Podcast: Thinking in Algorithms: My Conversation with Ali Almossawi [The Knowledge Project Ep. #38]
- Podcast: The Importance of Discipline; CEO Journals with Ethan Bridge
- Podcast: Arguments, Bad Arguments, and side projects; Young and Profiting
- Hidden gems do exist, meet Ali Almossawi, a Bahraini engineer working at Apple, author, and publisher; Startup MGZN
- Podcast: Using Algorithms to Make Better Decisions, Sidestepping Logical Fallacies and How To Think More Critically; Metalearn
- Video: This Week in Tech
- How to Use Algorithms to Solve Everyday Problems, MIT Sloan
- Video: D3 in Practice, SFHTML5 Meetup, Google, San Francisco (Slides)
- Video: Open-Sourcing the Creative Process, SDM Systems Thinking Series
- Informing with Design, Greylock Partners Design Group
- Audio: A conversation with ABC Radio about critical thinking and the art of making sense
- Ali Almossawi: Technical, Entrepreneurial, and Creative Mojo; MIT
- Talk at Links 2013 (MIT Media Lab) on measuring quality in complex software systems
- Video: Hosting guest speaker Cesar Hidalgo at Mozilla's Mountain View office
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments in the press
- This Short Book Makes You Smarter Than 99 Percent of the Population, Inc.com
- How to be a human lie detector of fake news, according to the latest science, CNN.com
- Why smart people believe coronavirus myths, BBC.com
- Summer Reading For The College-Bound, NPR
- A Finnish article on teaching children about logical arguments, yle.fi
- In the Mailbag: BEA 2015 Edition, Book Riot
- Eight Cousins Pick of the Year 2014
- San Diego Book Review
- Hones Of Contention, The Common Reader
- A Fun Primer on How to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Your Arguments; Open Culture
- Now More Than Ever, You Need This Illustrated Guide To Bad Arguments, Faulty Logic, And Silly Rhetoric; Fast Company
- Teach Your Kids Logic With An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Jenny Williams, GeekDad
- 9 Charming Cartoons Explaining Logical Fallacies, BuzzFeed
- Bad arguments, great illustrations by Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing
- This Little Piggy Made A Logical Error, The Dish
- A guide to fallacious arguments, illustrated with funny animals; io9
- National Indie Bestsellers - Extended Hardcover Nonfiction
- Southern Indie Bestseller List
- Book review: 'Bad Arguments' will entertain, help you diagnose poor logic; Omaha.com
- Book review: Tripping Over Logic, The Philosophy Club
- The Lost Art of Making Sense, ABC Radio
- New hardcover books teach kids through superheroes, gaming, art; Denver Post
- Greenville Public Library review
- How to argue, with others and yourself; Andreessen Horowitz Weekend Newsletter
- Shelf Awareness starred review
- Appearance in Page Turners, submitted by Ellen at The Griswold Inn Store
Bad Choices in the press
- This Week in Tech
- Review in New Scientist, From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads
- Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help, Slice of MIT
- Bad Choices to John Murray
- Web guru signs for John Murray
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language in the press
- Review on GeekMom.com by Jenny Bristol
- How to Recognize the Weasley, Smarmy, and Otherwise Loaded Language That People Use Against You; Lifehacker
Mentions and various other things
- Managing and visualizing big data by Meredith Somers, MIT Sloan
- Finally, a Handy Chart of the Big Five Book Publishers and Their Imprints; Tor
- Mozilla Firefox Hardware Report, SD Times
- Most Firefox users are running Windows 7 on dated PCs, Engadget
- Do-Not-Track Talks Could Be Running Off the Rails by Natasha Singer, New York Times
- What The World Wants From The Future Web As The FCC Looks To Shut The Door On Net Neutrality
- Evidence-based Software Engineering
- MIT $100K 2012 semi-finalist
- Weather doesn't affect ice cream consumption, Harvard Gazette
- Stewart Lee . . . has let himself go
- Interview with Behance CEO Scott Belsky
Personal writings
- A Wisp of Smoke
- Identity
- Measuring Code Quality (or What Does the Fox Weigh?)
- Five Ideas for Achieving Clarity in Data Visualization
- Open-Sourcing the Creative Process
- A Beautiful Night
- Shorty by Mikhail Naima, translated into English
- Randy Pausch's Last Lecture, translated into Arabic