Hello, I am Kevin Hartman, I am the instructor for communicating with data, I am also head of analytics at Google out of our Chicago offices. I've been there for at this point around six years of my career prior to Google I was at an advertising agency for a long time, prior to that I was in consulting before picking up a couple of masters degrees, one an MBA and another master of public policy. The one thing that has kind of marked my professional career, no matter where I was, if it was in consulting at an agency or here with Google now as I am today, it's been this idea of telling stories from data. It's something that I love. I've always felt really passionate about it. I was not always very good at it, it's not an easy thing to do but you learn in the 20 or so years that I've been doing this kind of work, a few things here and there along the way. You learn how to do it the right way, you learn how to do it the wrong way, so that you can you can kind of build on those habits that you should have and avoid those habits that you should not. Teaching the course through the University of Illinois and through Coursera is a wonderful experience. You get to meet so many bright, young as well as seasoned, and experienced people from all over the world. The amount of ideas that are exchanged is tremendous, the quality of the thought and the effort that goes into the courses are tremendously impressive. For all those reasons, I am so happy to be here, so happy to be a part of this course and so happy to be a part of your experience, and really looking forward to over the four modules that I get to teach, watching you learn, watching you develop, and at the end coming out a professional that knows so much more about communicating with data and it's so much more effective in that art.