Austin TUG November 2026: Human Insight in the Age of AI
November 12 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
About the Event
Please join the TUG Advisory Council & XeoMatrix as we host our special TUG event!
Feature Presentation
Speaker: Andy Cotgreave, Author of Big Book of Dashboards and Dashboards That Deliver. Co-host of Chart Chat
Presentation: Why Human Insight is More Important Than Ever in the Age of AI
Overview: Two robots are fighting for our attention. One insists this technology is amazing. The other insists we are doomed. Neither is a strategy. Learn what happens when we hand framing, semantics, and judgment to machines: from an AI agent that wrote a hit piece on its own critic, to what three different assistants produce when asked to make a data story from identical numbers.
Schedule of Events
Welcome & Introductions
Just a quick welcome and introduction to get the TUG started before we jump into the good stuff.
Out of the Comfort Zone, TBD
Learn how to get out of your comfort zone with AI with one of our members.
Why Human Insight is More Important Than Ever in the Age of AI, Andy Cotgreave, Author of Big Book of Dashboards and Dashboards That Deliver. Co-host of Chart Chat
Learn what happens when we hand framing, semantics, and judgment to machines: from an AI agent that wrote a hit piece on its own critic to what three different assistants produce when asked to make a data story from identical numbers.
Speakers
Andy Cotgreave
Andy Cotgreave is a leader in the field of data communication and literacy.
He has over 20 years’ experience in data analytics, including 15 years at Tableau. In that time he has helped thousands of people improve their data skills, and been a keen spotter of new trends in the industry, recently focusing on the impact AI will have on data analytics.
He is co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards and Dashboards That Deliver. He writes the How To Speak Data newsletter and co-hosts Chart Chat, a monthly video series about data communication.