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 1: Web Scraping Men’s and Women’s Clothing

19 Aug 2019

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?

17 Jul 2019

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

21 Jun 2019

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

21 Jun 2019

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

20 Jun 2019

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

19 Jun 2019

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.

Dashboard Week Day 2: Battlefield Sites in the UK

18 Jun 2019

For Dashboard Week day 2, the team will be visualising data about battlefield sites in the U.K.

Dashboard Week Day 1: UFO Sightings

17 Jun 2019

For Dashboard Week day 1, DS14 will be scraping and visualizing data from the National UFO Reporting Center Online Database.

My End-to-End Process for Approaching a Dashboard Design

7 May 2019

Last week I ran a teaching session with DS13 where I took them through my process for: Approaching an unfamiliar data setChoosing the most effective chartsUnderstanding how to leverage layout containersPutting together the final dashboard Last July, I demoed my...

Dashboard Week Day 2: The Avengers

25 Apr 2019

From what my kids tell me, tonight is supposed to be an epic night. Avengers Endgame is released at midnight to theatres all around the world. They don't have tickets for the midnight showing (you know, school and all the next day), so they'll be doing their best to...

What did it take to get into DS14?

23 Apr 2019

Now that DS14 is in their fourth week of 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 1: Spend over £25,000 at NHS Trusts

23 Apr 2019

Dashboard week is upon DS13. The basic idea is that the team is given a data source, they prep the data, create a visualization, and write a blog post. The blogging is going to be a struggle for some of them, but oh well, they’ll have to get over it. Here are the...

Dashboard Week Day 5: Mapping 24 Hours of U.S. Highway Traffic

1 Mar 2019

For their final day of Dashboard Week, DS12 will need to visualize one month of hourly traffic counts at stations across the U.S.

Dashboard Week Day 4: United States Drought Monitor

28 Feb 2019

With Power BI day behind them, we move onto day 4 in which the team will be analyzing drought conditions in America. Requirements: They must use the REST API to download the Comprehensive Statistics.They are more than welcome to supplement it with additional data....