BI Trend #1: AI and machine learning

Andy Cotgreave is a visual analytics expert who has been with Tableau in various roles since 2011 ranging from product consultant to social content manager. He is now Tableau's Technical Evangelism Director. Prior to Tableau he was a data analyst at the University of Oxford.

As a technical evangelist Andy helps people see and understand their data using Tableau’s innovative products. He shares his passion for visual analysis and technology with his writing, (eg Computerworld, on tableau.com and his own blog), speaking at industry conferences like SXSW and Tableau’s own events. He's also active on Twitter @acotgreave.

Andy’s role at Tableau gives him the opportunity to work with the media, analysts and customers across all industries to help them understand the trends in visual analytics and develop their own data-discovery skills.

Chris Fraley is a member of the research group at Tableau with a background in statistical computing. Her past experience includes a research position in statistics at the University of Washington, concurrent with R & D at Insightful Corp (from its early days as Statistical Sciences Inc), which was acquired by TIBCO/Spotfire. She has contributed to a number of areas of applied statistics, including model-based clustering, functional data analysis, ensemble weather forecasting, and gene regulatory networks. She is the principal author of several widely-used R packages.

Eric has an academic background in machine learning and artificial intelligence and a decade plus of software engineering experience on a variety of projects. He likes to create things that make people's lives easier and more fun.