About the Author

Randy Krum is the founder and president of InfoNewt (www.infonewt.com), a data visualization and infographics design company. In 2007, he started the Cool Infographics blog (www.coolinfographics.com) as a hobby, which has since grown into one of the world's most popular websites focused on infographics.

Randy is a designer of data visualizations and infographics for both online and internal use for clients. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences, professional organizations, MBA classes, corporate meetings, and government agencies. He was honored to be selected as the 2012 Central Intelligence Agency speaker series presenter. With a degree in mechanical engineering rather than graphic design and 15 years of prior experience working for consumer product companies, Randy focuses on telling visual stories with data.