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.
Air Quality in Madrid
At the end of week 2 for each new cohort, we pair them up with a member of the "older" cohort in training at the same time. So this week, each person in DS18 is paired up with someone from DS17. I randomly assigned them by having them pair up alphabetically in each...
Dashboard Week Day 5: Breaking Bad
We’ve had powerlifting, boy bands, and today tops them all…Breaking Bad!
Dashboard Week Day 4: Unwanted Calls
Day 4 of Dashboard Week comes with the caveat that the team needs to use a BI tool OTHER than Tableau. They’ll be analyzing robocalls.
Dashboard Week Day 3: Rural Electricity Demand in India
Many would consider electricity a human right. But does everyone have access? For day 3, DS16 will analyze a survey about electricity demand in India.
Dashboard Week Day 2: Parliamentary Rules
Parliament has A LOT of rules. How many? What are they about? DS16 will let us know for Dashboard Week day 2.
What did it take to get into DS17?
DS17 has been with us for a couple of weeks now, so it’s time to look back at what they did to get into The Data School.
Dashboard Week Day 1: The Design Census
Dashboard week is here for DS16. For their first day, they get to spend time visualizing messy survey data.
What did it take to get into DS16?
We’re often asked by applicants what it takes to get into The Data School. In this post, I show you what it took for those in DS16.
Dashboard Week Day 5: Uber Movement in London
For their last day of dashboard week, DS15 will be visualizing Uber movement data.
Dashboard Week Day 4: Working with Other Data Viz Tools
For day 5, DS15 will be getting exposure to other BI tools. First they’ll collect the data, then visualize it in a tool other than Tableau.
Dashboard Week Day 3: Four Dashboards
For dashboard week day 3, DS15 will be practicing KPI dashboards on desktop and mobile.
Dashboard Week Day 2: Diamond League PDF parsing
Day 2 is here and DS15 will have to learn how to parse PDFs, which is no simple task. The data comes from Diamond League, a track and field competition.
Dashboard Week Day 1: Web Scraping Men’s and Women’s Clothing
Dashboard Week is here for DS15 and for day 1, they need to scrape all of the new men’s and women’s clothing from the ASOS website and analyze it in Tableau.
What did it take to get into DS15?
As DS15 approaches the halfway mark of their training, I wanted to look back at their applications so you can see what it takes to get into The Data School.
Dashboard Week: Day 5 – POWERLIFTING
Dashboard week has sadly come to an end. For our last task, we looked at the history of powerlifting. Here‘s the full brief for the task. We had limited time today (only 3 and a half hours) but luckily no data prep was necessary. Here’s the link to my final...
Dashboard Week Day 5: The History of Powerlifting
For the last day of Dashboard Week, Lily and Nick are challenging both DS14 and DS15 to analyze data about powerlifting.
Dashboard Week Day 4: American Candy Survey
Candy! Yummy! Give me some Reese’s any time! For day 4 of Dashboard Week, DS14 will be visualizing a candy survey of Americans.
Dashboard Week Day 3: The Solar System
On Monday, DS14 worked with data about aliens. And aliens live in the Solar System. So for day 3, they be using data about the Solar System and visualizing it in PowerBI.