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 2: New Orleans Police Department Body Worn Camera Videos

18 Dec 2018

Inspired by #TC18, Dashboard Week day 2 will look at New Orleans Police Department body worn camera videos.

Dashboard Week Day 1: New York City Snowplow Coverage

17 Dec 2018

Dashboard week is back! For day 1, DS11 will visualize 253 million reading of snowplow data from New York City. The twist…they have to first upload it to Exasol.

What did it take to get into DS11?

4 Dec 2018

DS11 is now halfway through their training. In this post, we reflect back on what it took for them to get into The Data School.

Dashboard Week Day 5: Meteorite Landings

2 Nov 2018

For Dashboard Week Day 5, DS10 will be visualizing meteorite landings based on data from NASA.

Dashboard Week Day 4: Bike Sharing

1 Nov 2018

For day 4 of Dashboard Week, DS10 needs to use the Bike-Share API to build an Alteryx app that allow people find bikes in their city and plot a route in Tableau 2018.3.

Dashboard Week Day 3: UK Street Level Traffic

31 Oct 2018

For dashboard week day 3, DS10 needs to analyze traffic count data from the UK Department of Transportation.

Dashboard Week Day 2: National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program

30 Oct 2018

For #DashboardWeek day 2, the team needs to analyze daily weather observations from the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Program for over 10,000 weather stations from 1763-2018.

Dashboard Week Day 1: F**k Off As A Service

29 Oct 2018

Dashboard week is back! For day 1, DS10 has to visualize data from F**k Off As A Service. This will be interesting!

What did it take to get into DS10?

6 Sep 2018

It's final interview day for DS11...20 interviews for two spots. I figured what better way to kick off the day than to show everyone what it took to get into DS10. To show the variety that we get, for some of them I've chosen one of their applications and...

My First Batch Macro – Football Petitions in the UK

3 Sep 2018

In this post, Coach Andy created his first batch macro to get results for football petitions in the UK.

DS9: Dashboard Week Day 5 Recap

21 Aug 2018

For the final day of Dashboard Week, the team had to visualize public restrooms in Vancouver

DS9: Dashboard Week Day 5 – Vancouver Public Washrooms

17 Aug 2018

It’s the end of dashboard week and with it comes their last data set. For their final day, the team will visualize Vancouver’s public washrooms.

Dashboard Week Day 3 Recap: UK Food Hygiene Ratings

16 Aug 2018

Day 3 of Dashboard Week had the team inspecting the UK food hygiene ratings of eating establishments all around the country.

DS9: Dashboard Week Day 4 – Major League Baseball Game Archives

16 Aug 2018

Baseball…America’s favorite pastime. Today DS9 has to visualize 147 years of game-by-game results.

Dashboard Week Day 2 Recap: American Time Use Survey

15 Aug 2018

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...