About the Reviewers

Alberto Cairo has taught infographics and data visualization at the University of Miami since January 2012. He is the author of the book The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization (Peachpit/Pearson, 2012, http://www.thefunctionalart.com). He has been director of infographics at El Mundo online, Spain (2000-2005), professor of infographics and visualization at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2005-2009), and director of infographics and multimedia at época magazine, Brazil (2010-2011). In the past decade, he has consulted with media organizations and educational institutions in nearly 20 countries.

Ben Jones is founder of Data Remixed, a website dedicated to exploring and sharing data analysis and data visualization in an engaging way. Ben has a mechanical engineering and business (entrepreneurship) background, and has spent time as a process improvement expert and trainer in Corporate America. Ben specializes in creating interactive data visualizations with Tableau software, and has won a number of Tableau data visualization competitions. This is Ben's first contribution to a book on the subject of data visualization.

Santiago Ortiz invents and develops highly innovative and interactive projects for the Web, using self-built frameworks in JavaScript, HTML5, and ActionScript.

He has over more than 10 years of experience working on interactive visualization projects. In 2005, he co-founded Bestiario (http://bestiario.org), the first European company specializing in information visualization. Currently, he freelances in the U.S.A. and Europe.

He has presented at events such as VISWEEK, FutureEverything, VizEurope, O'Reilly STRATA, SocialMediaWeek, NYViz, OFFF, and ARS ELECTRONICA.

His projects have been featured in blogs such as ReadWriteWeb, FlowingData, O'REILLY radar, Fast CoDesign, Gizmodo, and The Guardian datablog.

Jerome Cukier is a highly respected Paris-based data visualization consultant with many years of experience as a data analyst and coordinator of data visualization initiatives at the OECD. Jerome specializes in the creation and design

of data visualizations, data analytics, and gamification. His broad portfolio of work is regularly profiled on the leading visualization and design websites and collated on his own site at http://www.jeromecukier.net.