Tableau Visionary & Ambassador
Selected as a 2026 Tableau Visionary - recognised with a small group who share their mastery, teach, and collaborate to make Tableau better for all.
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I'm Chris Westlake. I spend most of my working life in data visualisation — lately with a lot of Tableau — and I had the good fortune to win Iron Viz in 2024. I use this space to share what I'm learning as I go: ideas that made a chart click, mistakes that taught me something, and the occasional longer dive when a topic deserves it.
If you build dashboards every day, or you're simply curious about how to make numbers easier to read and harder to forget, I'm glad you stopped by. I write in the hope that you might find one tip worth trying on your next viz — or a perspective you want to argue with, which is welcome too.
Most posts sit where analysis, design, and storytelling meet. You'll see plenty of Tableau, a fair bit of Iron Viz and competition craft, and always an eye on whether the people looking at your work will actually understand what you meant them to take away.
Selected as a 2026 Tableau Visionary - recognised with a small group who share their mastery, teach, and collaborate to make Tableau better for all.
The flagship Tableau competition rewards clear analysis, tight storytelling, and exceptional design under pressure - against some of the strongest data viz practitioners.
Honoured to see work shortlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards - alongside some of the strongest data storytelling and visual journalism in the world.
Recent writing from the blog - Tableau, viz craft, and storytelling.
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A sample of collaborations — from print to the stage to deep Tableau work. If something here resonates, I would love to hear what you are building.
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