Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave is co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, and Technical Evangelist at Tableau. He is the host of If Data Could Talk, co-host of Chart Chat and columnist for Information Age. He has over 15 years’ experience in data visualisation and business intelligence, first honing his skills as an analyst at the University of Oxford.  Andy helps customers, media and analysts across all industries see and understand their data. He has inspired thousands of people with technical advice and ideas on how to identify trends in visual analytics and develop their own data-discovery skills.

  • Extending Tableau: how our customers are creating their own "apps"

    Andy Cotgreave October 11, 2012
    Here at Tableau HQ, we do our best to deliver you amazing functionality, free of bugs. Sometimes customers have use cases and requirements that we don't yet deliver. These may not always be on our roadmap for the future. Fortunately, we have passionate users who create their own apps and extend Tableau functionality themselves. This post examines the kinds of apps that are being created.

  • Reflections on one year at Tableau

    Andy Cotgreave October 11, 2012
    I started working with Tableau a year ago. I'd been a Tableau user for 4 years already by that time; I was a data analyst at the University of Oxford. I was reflecting on how the move to Tableau has influenced my career and figured it was time to check out my LinkedIn professional network. LinkedIn has a great tool that draws a network graph of all your connections. I hadn't done this for a year, so I didn't know what to expect. What I didn't expect was the overwhelming orange hairball of BI connections.

  • People + Passion + Data = ?

    Andy Cotgreave July 20, 2012
    With social tools and Tableau Public, people are able to talk and think with data in ways never before possible.

  • Tableau Public: it's here to stay

    Andy Cotgreave July 9, 2012
    Tableau Public exists because of our mission to democratize data. Having spent last week with the Guardian's data team, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate our commitment to the platform.

  • Tableau at the Guardian: reflections

    Andy Cotgreave July 6, 2012
    As Andy's week with the Guardian Data Team comes to an end, read his Storify reviewing his time there.

  • Tableau at the Guardian: day 2

    Andy Cotgreave July 4, 2012
    Andy Cotgreave returned to the Guardian newsroom again on Tuesday. Here's his story.

  • Tableau at the Guardian: day 1

    Andy Cotgreave July 3, 2012
    Read the Storify summary of Andy Cotgreave's first day at the Guardian

  • Tableau is going to be working with The Guardian's Data Store

    Andy Cotgreave June 26, 2012
    Tableau will be spending next week working with the Guardian Data Store, one of the most influential data journalism sites on the web. Andy Cotgreave (@acotgreave) will be sat in the newsroom, contributing to stories, helping the data team, and bringing more visualisation of news stories to the site's audience.

  • Tracking the tweets from Barcelona

    Andy Cotgreave April 2, 2012
    The sun is up, the coffee is flowing and people are tweeting in Barcelona on the first day of the conference.