The AI Analyst

Hands On with Ridge AI

Data visualization expert Andy Cotgreave puts Ridge AI through its paces on The AI Analyst.

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Andy Cotgreave
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September 14, 2026
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In their words

"Ridge's fast interactivity tech really brings the connection between the charts and the chats to life."

Andy Cotgreave

Summary

What they found

Andy Cotgreave's hands-on review of Ridge AI highlights its steerable prompting, direct chat-to-dashboard interactivity, and inline AI placement.

In this hands-on video review, Andy Cotgreave builds with Ridge AI and looks at how the dashboard and the AI agent work together.

What stood out

  • Steerable prompting. Builders can guide the agent toward the analysis they want.
  • Chat-to-dashboard interactivity. Answers in the chat connect directly to the charts on the dashboard.
  • Inline AI placement. The AI sits inside the analysis rather than in a separate window.
About the analyst

Andy Cotgreave

Andy Cotgreave is one of the best-known voices in data visualization and data communication. He spent 15 years at Tableau as a Technical Evangelist and Data Evangelist, hosted the Iron Viz championship, and helped thousands of people build stronger data cultures. He is co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, writes the How To Speak Data newsletter, co-hosts the monthly Chart Chat series, and speaks at conferences worldwide, including SXSW. Today he hosts The AI Analyst, a livestream series on how AI is changing the work of data analysts. Before Tableau, he was an analyst at the University of Oxford.

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