Tableau Zen Masters
The spirit of Tableau is our customers. We build software for the everyday person. By listening to and engaging with our community, we not only build better software, but ultimately a better company.
From this community, a select few have risen above all the rest in their mastery of the product, their willingness to share knowledge and most crucially their desire to help us improve the Tableau solutions of tomorrow. They are, at the same time, our biggest advocates as well as our harshest critics. We are lucky to have them.
Each of these people have demonstrated, in his or her own way, the zen of Tableau.
Tableau Zen Masters are nominated by our Tableau community and our team members. Zen Masters are selected for one year based on their contributions from the previous year.
Who are the Zen Masters?
Abisola Oni
Adam McCann
Alexander Mou
Ann Jackson
Azusa Maei
Bridget Cogley
Interpreter turned analyst, Bridget Cogley brings an interdisciplinary approach to data analytics. She focuses on ethics, data literacy, effective data communication, and functional aesthetics in design. She has been a Senior Consultant for the last 6 years and is a 4-time Tableau Zen Master. Prior to consulting, Bridget managed an analytics department, which included vetting and selecting Tableau, creating views in the database, and building comprehensive reporting. She also has experience in American Sign Language, training, HR, managing, and sales support.
Bridget sees Tableau in a fresh and inspiring way. Effective data communication is more than just putting some charts on a dashboard. Bridget holds our hands and gives us great ideas about how to turn a good visualization into an engaging one with a bit of humor along the way.
Carl Allchin
Chantilly Jaggernauth
Chris DeMartini
Chris Love
Eva Murray
Eva Murray, Head of BI at Exasol and Tableau Zen Master, is a leader in the data visualization community, running the popular global social data project #MakeoverMonday together with Charlie Hutcheson (and previously with fellow Zen Master Andy Kriebel).
Eva is passionate about helping people understand, work with and fall in love with data by giving them a platform for learning about data analysis and visualization and for connecting with like-minded people. In her day-job Eva is responsible for engaging with the Tableau community and leads Exasol’s philanthropic engagement.
Away from her computer screens, Eva is a keen triathlete, obsessed with cooking and loves to explore new places.
Jeffrey Shaffer
Joshua Smith
Ken Flerlage
Kevin Flerlage
Klaus Schulte
Lindsay Betzendahl
Lindsey Poulter
Lorna Brown
Luke Stanke
Marc Reid
Mark Wu
Merlijn Buit
Neil Richards
Rajeev Pandey
Ravi Mistry
Robert Radburn
I started working for Leicestershire County Council 18 years ago as part of the then Research team. But it was in 2011 that things really changed when I downloaded Tableau for the first time. Five (long) years later, in December 2016, we deployed Tableau Server across the Council. Currently, I'm called a Business Intelligence Development Team Leader. My job is to ensure the success of the Tableau deployment. I'm responsible for a team of developers that accesses Council data. Then wrangler it and add into our own database to allow analysts to plug in and viz. I'm also known to help with the vizzing.
In any spare time, I write data-driven stories with Tableau and Chris Love as the Data Beats on Medium (https://medium.com/@databeats), and create too many spatial treemaps.
Rosario Gauna
Sarah Bartlett
Sarah is a BI & Analytics Consultant at Slalom London and has been working in analytics for over 10 years. Sarah was introduced to Tableau in late 2014 whilst working as an analyst and soon discovered her passion for data visualisation through participating in various community initiatives including #MakeoverMonday and #VizForSocialGood. In 2018, Sarah competed on stage at Iron Viz Europe and the experience prompted her to launch #IronQuest; a community data visualisation initiative designed to prepare individuals for the Iron Viz feeder competitions. #IronQuest gives participants an opportunity to practice sourcing data, refine their design, storytelling and analysis skills whilst also providing a platform for participants to showcase their amazing visualisations. Sarah is currently a Tableau Social Ambassador and is passionate about welcoming newcomers to the Tableau Community.
In her spare time, Sarah co-leads London Tableau User Group and enjoys sharing vizzes on her favourite music genre; hip hop!
Simon Beaumont
Tamas Foldi
Toan Hoang
Tristan Guillevin
Yukari Nagata
Yvan Fornes
Shinichiro Murakami
Shin is always active on the Forums and has been a Top Contributor for more than 12 months. He has more than 825 “correct answers” in the Forum just within the calendar year 2017 alone. Shin has been using Tableau since 2014 and joined the Forum from October 2015. Since then, he has continued to answer a wide variety of questions and has provided support to thousands of people. You can also find him on Twitter, Tableau public and his own blog.
Shin is a Senior Supply Chain Planner within the Semiconductor Industry. In the Tableau community, he became recognized as a Tableau Ambassador from 2016. He has gained more than 80,000 points through Forum activity, which is the 2nd highest score among more than 60,000 community participants.
Shin’s goal is to allow people to enjoy using Tableau more.
Ryan Sleeper
Ryan Sleeper is an independent data visualization designer, author, speaker, trainer, and consultant specializing in Tableau.
He is a 2X Tableau Zen Master, 2013 Tableau Iron Viz Champion, author of the 2015 Tableau Public Visualization of the Year, and author of Practical Tableau (O'Reilly).