Andy Kriebel

That great dashboard you just created? It's not going to get you promoted.

The business impact behind it just might.

Four questions to turn your dashboard into a career story:

What was broken before you built it?
What changed after?
What's the number — hours saved, errors reduced, time to decision?
What's the 60-second story?

For more Tableau and career training: www.nextleveltableau.com/

12 hours ago | [YT] | 0

Andy Kriebel

Have 10 minutes today? You can publish a sales dashboard from scratch.

This walkthrough builds a full sales dashboard from scratch: map, bar chart, line chart, KPIs, layout containers, and interactivity. It's my most-watched video for a reason. 531k views and counting.

The starter and solution workbooks are in the description. Download them and follow along.

P.S. This is one of the first builds in the Back to School 30-Day Accelerator. Enrolment closes Sunday: www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

3 days ago | [YT] | 3

Andy Kriebel

The Back To School 30-Day Tableau Accelerator cohort starts tomorrow.

Today is the day to decide. You can still sign up after Monday but day one will already be live and the cohort will already be moving.

www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

4 days ago | [YT] | 5

Andy Kriebel

We go live in 3 hours.

Thinking about the Back to School cohort but not sure it's for you? Come ask us anything.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Andy Kriebel

Want your first publish-worthy Tableau dashboard in 7 days?

That's week one of the Back to School 30-Day Accelerator. Eva and I are walking through the whole thing live tomorrow night.

What you'll build, how the cohort keeps you moving, and why a structured group beats going it alone.

Tuesday 8 September. 8pm UK time.

What you get when you sign up:
→ Weekly accountability calls with Eva
→ Direct answers from me and the team inside the course
→ A dedicated course community with onboarding from day one
→ Weekly emails from me on what to focus on each week
→ Completion bonus: finish all 30 days and get a live group call with me

Cohort starts 14 September. Enrolment closes 20 September.

Or sign up now: www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Andy Kriebel

Table calculations were my nemesis for 10 years.

Then one day it clicked. I wrote it down, turned it into a picture, and it's been the way I've explained it ever since.

Here's the method: read the table calculation window as a plain English sentence.

1. Start with the unchecked boxes. Those are your "for each."
2. Move to the calculation type. That's your "compute the."
3. End with the checked boxes. That's your "by."

So this one reads: for each Category and Sub-Category, compute the Percent of Total by Year of Order Date.

That's it. Once you can read it as a sentence, you can build it with confidence instead of hunting and pecking until it looks right.

This is what we cover in Week 2 of the 30-Day Accelerator: www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

1 week ago | [YT] | 31

Andy Kriebel

Learning Tableau alone is hard.

Not because the tool is difficult. Because there is nobody to ask when you get stuck, nobody to notice when you stop showing up, and no way to know if what you are working on is the right thing to work on.

Most analysts trying to improve on their own hit the same pattern:

❌ Start strong

❌ Lose momentum around week two

❌ Quietly go back to doing things the same way they always have

In September, we are running the 30-Day Tableau Skill Building Accelerator as a group. Same structured lessons, same daily pace, but this time you are not doing it alone.

What that looks like in practice:

✅ Ask questions when you get stuck

✅ Share your dashboards and get feedback

✅ See how others are solving the same problems

✅ Actually finish

If you have ever started something like this and not made it to the end, doing it with other people is usually the missing piece: www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

1 week ago | [YT] | 7

Andy Kriebel

Most Tableau analysts are improving. Just not fast enough to get noticed.

They watch tutorials. They build dashboards. They get a little better. But without structure, feedback, or anyone pushing them forward, progress stays slow and invisible.

The analysts who get promoted, who become the go-to expert in their team, who get tapped for the interesting projects. They're not necessarily more talented. They just learned with intention.

This is what Billy Caughey did:

"I just got promoted because of this class, and it had only been 10 days. I showed management what I learned, and they said, 'Great, we have been thinking about this.' Now I lead a team of developers."

And Ajibola:

"I joined NLT while unemployed after failing my Tableau exam. Three weeks later I passed, and within a week I landed a new job. It still feels like a dream."

In September, we're running the 30-Day Tableau Skill Building Accelerator as a group. Structured lessons, a community working through it alongside you, and accountability to actually finish.

If you've been meaning to level up, this is the moment to do it with a plan.

www.nextleveltableau.com/backtoschool

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 8

Andy Kriebel

The biggest myth about learning Tableau? That it's easy.

The interface makes it easy to get going quickly. You build something, it looks good, confidence grows. That's by design.

But at some point you hit a wall.

Level of detail expressions. Table calculations. You realise there is a lot more to this than you thought.

That moment feels like failure. It is not. It means you are still learning.

The best Tableau developers do not stop at the wall. They ask how do I get past this? How do I get to the next level?

Then they hit another wall. And they do it again.

That cycle has been happening for me for 15 years.

If you have hit that plateau, I have something to help you get past it coming out this week. Make sure you do not miss it:
→ nlt.kit.com/

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 3

Andy Kriebel

How did you get started in data visualization? Here's my story.

It was a simple question: can you create a few dashboards to help us monitor the annual planning process?

I was working at Coca-Cola at the time and we didn't do "dashboarding." All we knew was pivot tables on OLAP cubes.

I turned to Google. Tableau was the first ad. The description ticked the boxes.

I downloaded the trial, watched all 5 training videos, and built my first dashboard. Done in 30 minutes.

I haven't looked back since.

What's your story?

P.S. This is an image of my first dashboard. I know now it's not great, but I sure felt like a superhero when I built it.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 15