Data Analyst

Andy Kriebel Portfolio

Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame member and co-founder of #MakeoverMonday; his Tableau Public profile holds 450+ published visualizations built from real public datasets over nearly eight years.

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What makes it work

A breakdown of the choices that make this portfolio stand out.

1

Consistency over years as the core credential

Publishing weekly visualizations for nearly eight years demonstrates sustained practice rather than a portfolio assembled before a job search.

2

Founding a community project as a leadership signal

Co-founding #MakeoverMonday, which generated 10,000+ community vizzes, shows an ability to build structure that scales beyond individual output.

3

Working with messy public data on a fixed weekly deadline

Taking an arbitrary dataset weekly on a hard deadline simulates real analyst work more closely than a cherry-picked show-piece project.

What Data Analysts can take from this

Specific, actionable tips to apply to your own portfolio — no generic advice.

  • Commit to a recurring cadence of publishing one visualization on a public dataset.

  • Practice on messy, arbitrary public datasets rather than only clean, curated ones.

  • If you find or start a recurring community challenge, participate publicly and consistently.

  • Record your dashboard-building process occasionally — walking through reasoning live differentiates you.

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