
Andy Kriebel
Andy, a member of the Tableau Zen Master Hall of Fame, started using 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 two weekly series: Makeover Monday and Tableau Tip Tuesday. Andy also founded the weekly Tableau Community project Workout Wednesday. He also writes on datavizdoneright.com along with Coach Carl, a site created to highlight data visualisation best practices.
Dashboard Week Day 3 Recap: UK Food Hygiene Ratings
Day 3 of Dashboard Week had the team inspecting the UK food hygiene ratings of eating establishments all around the country.
read moreDS9: Dashboard Week Day 4 – Major League Baseball Game Archives
Baseball…America’s favorite pastime. Today DS9 has to visualize 147 years of game-by-game results.
read moreDashboard Week Day 2 Recap: American Time Use Survey
For day 2, the team had to visualize the American Time Use Survey. Read all about it here. There were multiple methods for getting the data, which made for interesting presentations this morning. Some chose to parse the PDFs, others chose to join all of the individual...
read moreDS9: Dashboard Week Day 3 – UK Food Hygiene
For Dashboard Week day 3, the team will be looking at food hygiene ratings in the UK.
read moreDashboard Week Day 1 Recap: Prudential Ride London
So how did the team do for dashboard week day 1? Find out in this recap.
read moreDS9: Dashboard Week Day 2 – American Time Use Survey
For Dashboard Week day 2, DS9 will be telling us how Americans spend their time by visualizing 15 years of the American Time Use Survey.
read moreDS9: 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.
read moreWhat 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?
read moreThe 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!!!...
read moreHow often did DS8 sit in their favorite seat?
How often did DS8 sit in their favorite seat?
read moreDashboard Week Day 5: London Air Quality
The last day of Dashboard Week is here and the team has to visualize London Air Quality.
read moreDashboard Week Day 4: Energy Usage in America
For dashboard week day 4, the team will be visualising energy usage in America.
read moreDashboard 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...
read moreDashboard 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...
read moreDashboard 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.
read moreWhat 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.
read moreWhat 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...
read moreDashboard 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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