Andy Kriebel
Andy Kriebel
Andy, a five-time Tableau Zen Master, stumbled upon Tableau in 2007 when he was desperate for help to quickly create dashboards using SSAS cubes. Since then, it’s been Andy’s personal mission to help as many people as possible “see and understand” their data with Tableau, which is the focus of his role as Head Coach at The Information Lab’s Data School. Data is knowledge, but Andy believes that seeing data is insight.
In August 2009 he launched vizwiz.com, which provides examples of data visualization best practices, methods for improving existing work, and tips and tricks with Tableau Software. He writes three weekly series: Makeover Monday, Tableau Tip Tuesday, and Workout Wednesday. He also writes on datavizdoneright.com every Thursday, a site created to highlight data visualisation best practices.
DS9: Dashboard Week Day 1 – Prudential Ride London
It’s Dashboard Week for DS9 and their Monday project is to visualize the Prudential Ride London results.
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What did it take to get into DS9?
96 applications for eight spots in our 9th cohort at The Data School. What did it take to get in?
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The Data School Is Expanding
As of this writing, 64 brilliantly talented women and men have graduated from The Data School. When I think about it, it's crazy! 64! Already?? Where has the time gone? As we head full steam into our third year, we have some big news to share. WE'RE EXPANDING!!! We...
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How often did DS8 sit in their favorite seat?
How often did DS8 sit in their favorite seat?
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Dashboard Week Day 5: London Air Quality
The last day of Dashboard Week is here and the team has to visualize London Air Quality.
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Dashboard Week Day 4: Energy Usage in America
For dashboard week day 4, the team will be visualising energy usage in America.
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Dashboard Week Day 3: Rick and Morty
Today's challenge comes from my son Oscar. He's a huge Rick and Morty fan (I'm totally clueless about it) and he saw a post on reddit to the Rick and Morty API. According to the website: The Rick and Morty API (or ShlaAPI) is a RESTful API based on the television show...
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Dashboard Week Day 2: Southern Oscillations to Predict El Nino Effects
Day 1 has passed with me screwing everything up, getting the office blocked by Parkrun and having to give the team a last minute data set. Now we're onto day 2 and the team will be visualizing Southern oscillations to predict el nino effects based on data from the...
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Dashboard Week Day 1: Rome Food
For Dashboard Week Day 1 the team has to visualize Coach Andy’s food consumption on his recent trip to Rome.
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What did it take to get into DS8?
Meet DS8 of the Data School. Check out how they made over their initial applications as part of their first week of learning Tableau.
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What is it like to be a client working with The Data School?
One of the foundations of the Data School curriculum is the client projects. Essentially, we identify clients that have problems they need solved, dashboards they need built, etc. and the Data Schoolers work on these for a week each. But not a week really. Only about...
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Dashboard Week Day 5: Princess Leia Is Everyone’s Favorite, and Other Star Wars Statistics
This morning on my way to the DS, I was listening to the NPR Politics Podcast and they have this great segment at the end of each show called "Can't Let It Go". One of the hosts was talking about Star Wars and a poll about people's favorite characters (she hates Jar...
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Dashboard Week Day 4: Cheese, Cheese and More Cheese
Thursday’s challenge/project is to create an infographic about different types of cheese.
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Dashboard Week Day 2: What’s more important? Personality or Good Looks?
For dashboard week day 2, DS7 needs to answer a simple yet fundamental question: What’s more important to people around the world, personality or good looks?
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Dashboard Week Day 1: American Housing Survey
And we're off. For week 1 of Dashboard Week, DS7 has to download, parse, prep and visualize data from the American Housing Survey. Here's what they have to do: Download the data and table definitions here. Using Alteryx, import and prep the data (this is the messy...
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It’s Dashboard Week v7!
We were supposed to have a project for a client this week, but it had to be delayed at the last minute. Instead the team gets to experience Dashboard Week. Each cohort before them has gone through different flavors and it starts Monday for DS7. The point of Dashboard...
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What did it take to get into DS7?
As I've done with nearly all of the previous cohorts at The Data School, allow me to introduce you to our next cohort, DS7, beginning their training on October 2nd. We had a record 68 applications, three early acceptances, and 19 interviews in one day for the final...
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Dashboard Week Recap – Data Prep, Vizzes and Lots of Learning
What a week and what an amazing job by DS6! They not only had to tackle a new project every day, they also had to write blogs (some are still working on them) and present each day. There are way too many vizzes to highlight, so instead, here are their presentations...
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