Tableau Visionaries
Inspire the community by sharing their mastery, teaching, and collaborating.
Tableau Visionaries raise the bar of what’s possible
When it comes to mastery of the Tableau platform, the desire to collaborate, and leadership within the community, Tableau Visionaries are in a class of their own. They share their expertise with others and help Tableau build better products. Recognized for their contributions, they are nominated by the community and represent diverse skill sets, backgrounds, and interests from all around the world. We are lucky to have them as community leaders..
What it takes to become a Tableau Visionary
Demonstrate Mastery
Show a deep understanding of how Tableau works. Develop innovative, effective new ways to use Tableau.
Teach in the Community
Help others be better Tableau users. Provide correct and clear answers to questions. Serve as Tableau evangelists and share our mission.
Collaborate With Others
Share tips and tricks that even our brightest developers hadn’t considered. Offer support to people of all skill levels.
BECOME A TABLEAU VISIONARY
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The Tableau community has given me so many joys and opportunities that it would take me all day to list them! What stands out for me the most is the virtuous circle of learning and sharing.
Meet the current Tableau Visionaries
The 2024 Tableau Visionaries include 46 individuals, representing 16 countries, and 4 global regions.
Adam Mico
Adam Mico is a data visualization and enablement leader. He is certifiably Tableau (Specialist and Consultant) and Salesforce (CRM/Einstein Analytics), an advisory board member with the Data Leadership Collaborative, a published author, a golden hoodie recipient at Dreamforce, and a two-time Michael W. Cristiani Community Leadership Award Winner (Tableau Conference). He is autistic and supports diversity and inclusion efforts which includes neurodiversity. He is a big advocate of diversity and inclusion and strives to elevate the data platform for all. He believes learning and supporting others is a lifelong pursuit.
Adrian Zinovei
Stoney creek, Canada
Adrian Zinovei is a passionate Tableau Developer based in Toronto, Canada. With over a decade of experience, he's been a trusted consultant to top companies in the region. Adrian's Tableau journey began ten years ago, and he's been continuously amazed by the tool's evolving features and capabilities. As a co-leader of the Toronto Tableau User Group (TUG), he fosters a vibrant community of data enthusiasts, sharing insights and best practices. Beyond his professional endeavors, Adrian serves as a dedicated board member of Viz for Social Good, where Tableau becomes a powerful tool for visualizing data to help those in need. At his workplace, he's earned a reputation as 'the guy who can deliver the impossible.' He thrives on extracting the best value and insights from data, holding certifications as a Data Scientist and a fervent passion for Machine Learning. Adrian's guiding motto is simple yet profound: 'If you stop learning, you start dying.' He lives by this mantra, continually seeking new challenges and opportunities to expand his expertise.
Annabelle Rincon
After having successfully led teams of data experts of varying sizes and locations over the past fifteen years, Annabelle is currently dedicated to driving data-driven insights and innovation while actively contributing to community engagement as she co-leads Data + Women Zurich and the Tableau Analytics User Group. She considers data visualization and analytics her ikigai (purpose) and finds joy in fostering a community of practitioners in every organization she has worked with. With a keen focus on Visual Analytics and mastery of Tableau (both Desktop and Server), she has been recognized as a Tableau Visionary and Social Media Ambassador.
Anya Prosvetova
Anya is a Senior Data Engineer at Aimpoint Digital with a background in SaaS, consulting, financial services and the creative industries. She helps organisations to convert data into value, developing data pipelines and automating processes. She is also interested in building custom Tableau-based applications and has been teaching herself Python and JavaScript. A believer in sharing knowledge, Anya helps people to develop their data skills by introducing data analysis and visualisation tools into their everyday workflows, conducting trainings, writing manuals, articles, and presenting at events.
Brian Moore
Haverhill, MA, United States of America
Brian is a Data Visualization & Analytics Practice Team Lead at Cleartelligence, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a self-proclaimed Tableau fanatic, and when he is not helping his clients get the most out of their data with Tableau, he is having fun on Tableau Public building unique visualizations. He is also active in the Tableau Community, co-leading the Boston TUG, blogging on his website, domoorewithdata.com, and teaching/mentoring newcomers to Tableau.
Brittany Rosenau
Tavares, United States of America
Brittany is a design enthusiast who believes everyone is better with equitable access to data. She was introduced to Tableau Public through an internal enablement program in 2019 and has been hooked ever since. Brittany is a serial dabbler in community projects, 8 time Viz of the Day recipient, and was a finalist in the 2023 Iron Viz competition. When she’s not vizzing, Brittany enjoys reading, movies, concerts, taking care of her aquariums and growing plant collection, and traveling.
Chiaki Ishida
Tokyo, Japan
Chiaki has been building a Tableau CoE at a company she works for. She is training people to use Tableau to solve business problems. She strives to make viz simple and easy to understand, but occasionally contributes complex, challenging, and playful viz. Her journey with Tableau has started since 2018. After that, she loves Tableau Public and the Tableau Community, which is always a great inspiration. So she would like to encourage more people in Japan to join.
Chimdi Nwosu
Chimdi is a Data Visualization(Data Viz) professional recognized for leveraging functional design and beautiful aesthetics to deliver high quality solutions to clients.He is a Data viz manager at Postmedia Network Canada, and consults with client's like Walmart and McGill University via VizSight Analytics Inc. his data viz consultancy. Outside work he loves free-styling melodies on his keyboard, intense workouts, and deep conversations with friends about life. He's been humbled by many #datafam community awards and aims to give back by participating in community events. Connect with him on twitter (@menscuriosa) or vizsight.com to say hello & chat about anything.
CJ Mayes
Hello, CJ here. To be nominated by my friends, community and inevitably Tableau really has a special place in my heart. I’m one of thousands of users who use the tool with the hope to learn, connect and collaborate through our shared love of data. I’m most likely known for my sports visualisations and non-conform chart styles. Sports data is my joy, having grown up watching and playing various sports over the years, including hockey, tennis and more recently the gym. What I admire about the commonality between the #DataFam and sports is, the team-like community, the desire to improve, and celebrate our achievements. Please reach out on Twitter and visit cj-mayes.com where I share new tutorials each month.
Cristian Saavedra Desmoineaux
Tampa, Florida, United States of America
I am a developer advocate, or, as Warren Thornthwaite used to call me, a data magician with many hats who pushes the limits every day to improve and help make faster and better decisions. My passion as a System Engineer is helping to grow others, bringing my experience of over 20+ years designing “& implementing Data Warehouses and leading Data “& Analytics mission-critical projects for Telco, Energy, Mobile Food, and Health Care. Currently working in Xeo Matrix Tableau Partner as Senior Solution Architect. I enjoy playing LEGO and sharing knowledge as an author for TowardsDataScience.com at https://cristiansaavedra.medium.com/ You can find me on LinkedIn, DataDev Slack or in our Latin community comunidatos.com
Dawn Harrington
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Dawn Harrington is a Tableau Software Engineer VP at JP Morgan Chase “& Co. She has her own blog site Techtipsgirl.com where she writes how-to articles covering a variety of topics for Tableau, Alteryx and Microsoft Office. She has her own Youtube channel under the same name. She is also an Alteryx Innovator. She currently has two degrees, a BFA in Art Education and a Computer Applications degree. Her personal and professional goals are to help educate as many users as she can through her tech tips. She hosts many training sessions at her company and has volunteered to host / present at many TUG sessions. Her blog articles have been featured for the Datafam round up articles and in TableauTraining. She loves all things sci-fi including Dr. Who, Marvel, Star Trek and Star Wars.
Dennis Kao
Ottawa, Canada
By day, Dennis is a social work professor at Carleton University, where he conducts health equity research and teaches courses on community practice, nonprofit management, and research/statistics. By night, he is an aspiring data visualization and map designer. With over a decade of experience in statistical analysis and GIS mapping, he first discovered Tableau in November 2020. Engaging with the #DataFam and participating in the various community projects has invigorated his passion for working with data.
Diego Martínez
Diego is the CTO for Modux, a Tableau Partner. He is a highly Motivated Industrial Engineer with 9+ years experience working with Tableau and Data visualization and 7+ years' expirience in marketing and supply chain. Diego spends his time helping people with all kind of questions in the community, turning raw data into actionable decisions and insights, teaming up with companies to turn them into data driven by using Tableau Platform/Tableau Blueprint, and creating learning videos on https://www.modux.co/webinars-tableau/
Diego Parker
Diego is a Business Intelligence Adoption Manager at Lloyds Banking Group. Originally from Chile, he moved to the UK in 2018 and joined The Data School, part of The Information Lab. There he learned Tableau under some of the best users in the world and set on a mission to solve complex problems using data. He is a Tableau Zen Master, co-leader of the LATAM Tableau User Group, and reached 4th place in Iron Viz 2020. He also loves making Latin American food and drinks!
Donna Coles
Didcot, United Kingdom
Donna is a 7-time Forums Ambassador and 2-time Tableau Visionary. She has been using Tableau for over 10 years specialising in both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. She is currently an analytics consultant at Biztory sharing her passion and knowledge of Tableau with a variety of clients. She has been a regular participant of the #WorkoutWednesday community project since its inception in 2017, and recently joined the leadership team. She uses the challenges to really test her Desktop skills and also try out new features, and blogs her solution guides at donnacoles.home.blog.
Emily De Padua
New Jersey, United States of America
Emily De Padua is a lover of all things people, data visualization, and storytelling. After earning a Bachelors in Classical Flute Performance at Rowan University and a serendipitous turf management lecture at the Philadelphia Eagles stadium, Emily forged a data career that has spanned industries such as Classical Music, Botanical Gardens, Sports, and Media “& Entertainment. Introduced to Tableau at her first Data Analytics role in 2016, Emily has the honor of being a three-time Global Tableau Iron Viz Competition Runner Up, placing 10th in 2020, 7th in 2022, and 8th in 2024. Emily later won the honor of Data Storyteller Extraordinaire and Viz of the Year at the 2024 Tableau Vizzies.
Eric Balash
Fairfax, United States of America
Hi! I’m Eric Balash, a data visualization expert passionate about turning data into insights. I’m a Tableau Visionary and Tableau Public Ambassador that's dedicated to helping others harness the power of data. I founded Back 2 Viz Basics, a Tableau community project designed to help newcomers build confidence in data visualization, and I run the Tableau Student Guide to support aspiring data professionals. I also host the Data Afterhours podcast, where I chat with industry leaders about their careers and passions beyond data. Professionally, I work at Navy Federal Credit Union, delivering high-impact dashboards that drive strategic decision-making across the organization. Outside of work, I enjoy life in the DC metro area with my wife, Olivia, and our standard poodle, Loki. Let’s connect and talk data!
Felicia Styer
Kansas City, United States of America
You might recognize Felicia from her tutorials on data models and formatting, or from her project Tableau365 where she spent a year tackling r/Tableau's data questions. She works with Playfair Data as a consultant, specializing in tricky Tableau builds and data reshaping. You can hire her for your next data project! Outside of work she enjoys birding, hiking, watching women's soccer, creating overly detailed spreadsheets, and dabbling in community projects. You can find her online using the handle Graph Hopper, or in-person at the next KCTUG meetup.
Gbolahan Adebayo
Lagos, Nigeria
Gbolahan is a Data Visualization Developer at MAGNiTT. He has used Tableau for over 3 years for work and fun. He is a Tableau Public Ambassador for ’23, a 2x winner of the Vizzies: 'Biggest Growth’ ('23) and 'Notable Newbie’ ('22), and has received 6 #VizoftheDay nominations on Tableau Public. Outside of Tableau, he loves Manchester City and spending time on Pinterest.
Jared Flores
Jared Flores is a Solutions Architect at Analytic Vizion with a wide range of experience from cloud database solutions, data preparation and engineering, and data visualization. Jared is an avid participant in the #PreppinData community initiative, having recently completed over 150 challenges in 100 days. He teaches about and advocates for Tableau Prep in his YouTube channel called Put Some Prep in Your Step, creates Tableau Prep templates hosted on his blog of the same name, and was the 2022 Prepstar vizzie award winner. He is also a Tableau Instructor at Emory Continuing Education in partnership with Women In Technology in a program dedicated to enabling single mothers with skills in the information technology and cyber security industries.
Jennifer Dawes
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Jennifer Dawes has 8 years of professional experience in data analytics. Jennifer is currently a Tableau Public Ambassador and has received the Tableau Public Viz of the Day award on nine occasions. Jennifer is passionate about elevating, educating, and empowering women in data. She is also one of the Co-Founders of HerData.net alongside her good friend, Dinushki De Livera.
Jenny Martin
When Jenny first found Tableau 3 and a half years ago, she immediately wanted to use it to build a Pokédex, which is still one of the projects she's most proud of today. Discovering Tableau Prep a couple of months later opened up a whole new world of possibilities and soon enough she was encouraging others to prepare Pokémon data through Preppin' Data challenges. It's one of her favourite things to geek out with people taking their first steps with the tool. She also helps to run the Tableau Prep User Group, which is a great way to share in the excitement about Tableau around the world!
Jim Dehner
Nashville, United States of America
Jim is a multi-time Tableau Visionary and Tableau Forums Ambassador, the co-founder of the Tableau Newbie User Group and co-leads that group and the Nashville Tug. He is a fixture on the Forum where he has answered thousands of questions – maybe one was yours or you may have heard him speak at TC or your local TUG. His blog focuses on helping new and intermediate users enhance their Tableau skills through regular “How-to” and “Use Case” posts (jimdehner.com) and through his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@JimDehner. Jim is passionate about help users learn Tableau and is currently working with Tableau to develop a program aimed at K-12 students.
Kevin Wee 黃克文
Chicago, United States of America
Kevin is a Featured Author who publishes vizzes with innovative designs and functions on his Tableau Public profile. His vizzes have been featured as the Viz of the Day and in the Tableau Conference Viz Gallery. He is known for his "Tableau x Figma series," showing how to create dashboards with good UI via both tools. He has presented the series in many Tableau User Group meetups. Kevin won the 2023 "Biggest Growth" Vizzies Award for his creative works and contribution to the DataFam community. Kevin has a PhD in scientific visualization evaluation. He is a Senior BI Analyst at Discover Financial Services, where he develops data tools for business analytics and provides Tableau training to employees.
Kimly Scott
Kimly works as Data Visualisation Analyst and evangelizes effective use of data visualisation at her organisation. She is a Tableau Public Ambassador and holds 15 #VizOfTheDays. She has a passion for fostering community and championing diversity. She co-leads the Melbourne Tableau User Group and #DiversityInData. And her passion for diversity led her to start a blog (https://shewillviz.com) in an effort to showcase women in data viz.
KT
My life was changed when I met Tableau. Since I was inspired by Tableau's belief people are born with creativity, I have been working to spread data-driven culture. I started Tabjo (Women’s UG in Japan) in 2015 and worked with several TUGs. Japan Tableau User Group (JTUG) is the largest TUG in Japan. We connect Tableau users by organizing flagship events that attract hundreds of people twice a year. JTUG management has grown to a team of 30 people who not only run events but also organize online content (web, Twitter, etc.). I’m also the founder of the #DATASaber program, a community-driven system that fosters people who promote a data-driven culture and activates the community.
Kyle Massey
Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Kyle is a 3x Tableau DataDev Ambassador and Tableau Featured Author who lives with his husband, Dan, in Columbus, OH. He is a Lead Software Engineer managing the central development and automation team for Business Intelligence tools at JPMorgan Chase. Kyle co-leads the DataPride TUG, which creates a space to learn, network and share for the LGBTQIA+ members of the #DataFam and our allies. He is originally from Cincinnati, OH but moved to Columbus in 2004 to attend the Ohio State University and never left! In his spare time, Kyle enjoys playing video games, spending time with his pets – Kevin (dog) “& Willie (cat).
Lisa Trescott
Carlsbad, California, United States of America
Lisa Trescott is a research analyst at MiraCosta College, where she supports the efforts of the college’s student equity and achievement programs. In her role, Lisa uses Tableau to examine student outcomes, help identify students in need, and assist the college with strategic planning. She has been using Tableau since 2017, and was the Iron Viz Global Champion in 2021, won the Tableau Tip Battle at TC23, and currently co-leads the California Community Colleges Tableau User Group. When not playing with data, you can find Lisa at the beach, hiking, or chasing after her very active toddler.
Louis Yu
Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
As part of the Visual Analytics team in 2K Games, Louis develops numerous dashboards through to enable insights for many of their games catalogue. Within the #datafam community, he co-leads the #GamesNightViz project as well as the Singapore Tableau User Group. His passion for data visualization is augmented by his achievements as featured author and qualifying for Top 15 in #IronViz 2023. Ever ready to give back to the community, he started #SecretsOfTheViz in YouTube to decipher the intricacies of the amazing #VizOfTheDay awards.
Marcelo Has
Jundiai, São Paulo, Brazil
Marcelo Has is a data lover passionate about helping people with their careers. He has extensive experience in various areas such as Data Product, Dashboard Design, Data Engineering, Data Visualization, Storytelling, and Web Development. He is 2x #VizOftheDay, and 5x Tableau Certified (Including Customer Success). Marcelo is the creator of the Tableauzando YouTube channel, where he publishes free content on Tableau and Design within Tableau. He also built the Tableau Data Dictionary Generator, a free tool where you can use your .twb or .twbx file to generate a data dictionary in seconds without worrying about data security. Marcelo is one of the Career PathMakers TUG leaders where he helps different people around the world with their career growth, and has been mentioned multiple times over different community events and Tableau Conferences due to his contributions
Michelle Frayman
Boston, United States of America
Michelle started using Tableau Public at the end of 2018 to participate in #MakeoverMonday. When she is not practicing with #MakeoverMonday, #IronQuest, or #DataFamCon she likes to viz about topics in her everyday life and engage with the data community on Twitter at @maf2k. She co-leads #VizOfficeHours, #TheFeedbackLoop and #DataFamCon and has occasionally tried to broaden her horizons by attempting to blog at My Data Continuum. Her favorite part of Tableau Public is that it is available to anyone to use. Her kids have even set up accounts to build vizzes for their Bar Mitzvah projects and she hopes they move past their love of pie charts. When not vizzing she enjoys spending time with her family cooking, skiing, camping, and playing ultimate Frisbee.
Nicole Klassen
Nicole Klassen is a data visualization developer with a passion for social science research and mental health advocacy. She combines her background in psychological research with her data viz skills to create vizzes that shine a light on societal problems such as mental health, climate change, and women's rights. Her work in the community both vizzing and co-leading the Atlanta Tableau User Group, #DataFamCon and #Eduvizzers has earned her a Vizzie and 3 Viz of the Days.
Pablo Gomez
Originally from Argentina and living in the UK, Pablo is Tableau Public Ambassador, co-leader of #LondonTUG, co-leader of Latino TUG Comuni[Datos] and Data Visualization Lead at BSI Group who has worked in many projects and organisations as Data Visualisation Specialist for more than a decade. Always fascinated by Data and Graphic Design, he was introduced to Tableau in 2013 as soon it became the perfect platform to combine both of his passions. He became a Tableau Public Ambassador in 2017 and ever since, he has spoken in several TUGs and events about the importance of building a Tableau Public profile not only as a never ending source of inspiration; but also to learn and grow your dataviz skills.
Prasann Prem
New Delhi, India
Prasann Prem is the Founder of VizDiner and is a Data Visualization Coach who aims to enable companies and young professionals with data visualization and storytelling skills. He is also the founder of the Tableau Buddy program through which he has mentored over 1000+ data aspirants across the globe, and has been recognized as a Tableau Visionary and a Tableau Ambassador.
Priya Padham
Priya has been an active community member since early 2020. Since then, she has become a Tableau Featured Author, Tableau Public Ambassador, and received a community award at the Tableau Conference. She enjoys visualising data about her interests, such as her favourite music and movies, as well as experimenting with design. The #DataFam community is so inspiring and full of incredible people, and she always looks forward to connecting with members all over the world who share a passion for data.
Samuel Parsons
Sam is Group Analytics Cloud Lead and Senior Consultant for Tableau Partner, Biztory. Sam's passion centres around delivering sumptuous innovative branded solutions for his customers. Although a lot of his experimentation and exploration is done through the use of his own Tableau Public profile; and he has recently started a YouTube channel to help explain the 'how and why' around his work and solutions. Sam not only is a multi-year Visionary, he was also runner up of Tableau’s Iron Viz competition in 2021. He used the viz he created in the Final to showcase nesting of (the then new feature), Dynamic Show / Hide containers. That 'feature showcasing' is repeated through Sam's Tableau Public work, where he likes to find and show how new Tableau features can be utilised. His background is in product design and in finance and analytics, but his real passion is centred on visualisation design, exploring what ‘good’ data design is and how that can encourage enablement and engagement. In his spare time, Sam loves get creative with his three children, and walk and train his St Berdoodle dog, Shakespeare
Sean Miller
Sean is a Tableau Visionary and the Associate Director of Data Visualization at Evolytics and has been using Tableau since 2015. At Evolytics, he leads the data visualization practice and works with clients from all over the world to make a positive difference with data. Sean's enthusiasm extends outside of Evolytics as he leads and participates in various global Tableau community initiatives. He hosts a weekly livestream on YouTube, is a #WorkoutWednesday coach, leads the #DataPlusMusic project, and co-leads the Kansas City User Group. He has been recognized for his contributions and has earned the title of Tableau Visionary and Ambassador. His work is featured in the book, "#MakeoverMonday: Improving How We Visualize and Analyze Data, One Chart at a Time"
Shreya Arya
United Kingdom
Shreya is a Data School UK consultant at The Information Lab, with a background in Chemistry. She loves blending creativity and storytelling into her data viz designs on Tableau Public. She also shares tips and inspiration on her blog, Data Viz Fairy (datavizfairy.co.uk), encouraging others to let their creativity flourish. As a co-lead of Back 2 Viz Basics (#B2VB), she supports newcomers in growing their Tableau skills. With nearly 2 years of experience, she’s been recognised with x8 Viz of the Days on Tableau Public and the Vizzie Award for “The Kelly Martin Best Designer” at the 2024 Tableau Conference. In her spare time, Shreya enjoys making jewellery, water colouring, crocheting, and being in nature.
Tore Levinsen
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Tore is a Tableau Jedi at Inmeta Consulting with experience in Tableau since version 7.0 (when filled maps and area charts were introduced). He is based in Bergen, Norway, and is one of Europe's most merited Tableau Trainers, with over 3.550 people trained in 16 countries. He has run the TUG Norway since 2018 and have been co-hosting Vizit London 22 and Vizit Berlin 23. From 2024 he's also the co-leader of the new Data+Maps TUG. He has over 20 years of experience as a consultant, advisor, trainer, and lecturer at universities. He has over 75 Tableau t-shirts/hoodies and a growing swag compilation! On his spare time, he supports Liverpool FC and are a football coach for youths.
Tim Ngwena
Tim’s first version of Tableau was version 7 back in 2014. Since then, he’s consulted and trained a range of clients whilst working for The Information Lab in the UK. He runs a YouTube channel that shares Tableau explainers and when not using Tableau, he’s a proud dad, fiancé, vizsla-crazed F1 fan who also fancies himself as a creator, gamer, podcaster and drone hobbyist.
Tristan Guillevin
Tristan and his partner run a remote-first data visualization studio, Ladataviz. Renowned as a Tableau Visionary, Ambassador, and the 2017 Iron Viz Champion, he's fervently pushing the boundaries of conventional tools. He has crafted specialized products to create advanced visualizations in Tableau, simplify the process of building KPI dashboards, and a plugin to convert Figma design to Tableau dashboard automatically. To democratize data visualization expertise, Tristan consistently shares insights through educational content on YouTube and a subscriber-based newsletter. All of this contributes to his overarching goal of maintaining a location-independent business operation.
Veronica Simoes
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Veronica Simoes has over 18 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Management, Big Data and DataVisualisation. She started her journey with the Tableau community in 2011 as a volunteer, analyzing data related to anonymous reports of violence in Rio de Janeiro. She also have founded TUGs Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Fortaleza and started this great challenge of bringing customers and data analytics professionals who didn't know Tableau. Veronica is the Founder of PATH https://www.path.com.br and provides basic and advanced tips and tricks for those who want to improve their Tableau Technical skills https://path.com.br/tableau-dicas-e-truques/. Veronica is also Tableau Visionary/Tableau Forum Ambassador and loves to share her deep knowledge with Tableau Community.
Will Sutton
Will is a Consultant at The Information Lab and recently became this year's Iron Viz champion at Tableau Conference in Las Vegas. He's been using Tableau since 2014 and after seeing the amazing work from the Tableau Community he was inspired to develop his data skills further, regularly participating in community projects like #PreppinData, #RWFD, #IronQuest. Now he co-hosts the community initiative #GamesNightViz, which is a monthly data viz, prep and design challenge featuring data from all types of games.
Yupeng Wu
Yupeng is perhaps the best representation to fulfill the statement --“tableau can help people (esp. Not-it users) to see and understand data".
Several years ago, Yupeng was then the Chairman Assistant and Business Analyst in a Retail company. Same as other analysts in China, he struggled to derive insight from many different reporting tools for Managements. However, only Tableau was able to help him to ask questions , get the answer and ask follow up questions from data within one visual interface to provide the accurate insight and helped Management team made data driven decisions.
To make full use of Tableau in different business environments, Yupeng began to study in Tableau intensely, especially LOD calculations in different business environments. Meanwhile, Yupeng documented his experience and practical methods in blogs and launched an activity named “Zero Master”, trying to help business users without IT background to apply and master tableau skillsets in their business.
Now, he became one of Tableau Partner from a passionate tableau user, to share his best practices to wider scale of users in China.
During the outbreak of COVID-19, Yupeng summarized his extensive tableau knowledge accumulated from past years, he completed and published a book “Data Visualization-Tableau Principle and Best Practices”(in Chinese Tableau原理可视化分析最佳实践), which is ranked best seller in Tableau related books and being translated by passionate users in English to benefit more diversified global users.
Yuta Sakai
Osaka, Japan
Yuta Sakai is a data consultant working in the sales department of a telecommunications company. He mainly supports the use of data with a focus on Tableau. He provides consulting services for data utilization, dashboard creation, and training for technical proficiency. He has been using Tableau for about 7 years, but first met the Tableau community at the DATA Saber Bootcamp 4 years ago. From there, he became fascinated with the community and started creating viz on a daily basis. Now his biggest hobby is Tableau. He hopes to use the power of design to create Viz that will bring new insights to people. These days he spends most of his time camping with his wife and two kids.
Zach Bowders
Zach is a strong advocate for doing what you love. From vizzes dissecting pop culture hits to his award-winning Data+Love podcast or his time spent encouraging and supporting others, his love for data and the community surrounding it is clear. His efforts have made him a 2-time Vizzie Award winner, 5-time VOTD recipient, and a Tableau Ambassador. Zach brings this passion to his daily professional work as a BI Specialist at JLL.
Ruy Aguilar
Atlanta, United States of America
Ruy Aguilar, an accomplished bilingual business operations and analytics leader, possesses an unwavering drive for operational excellence and leveraging data-driven insights to achieve remarkable success. Having extensive experience in business management, pricing, finance, sales operations, and analytics, Ruy is a respected industry professional. His journey began in operations and finance roles at Marriott and Frenoseguro, where curiosity led him to explore diverse departments, understanding the profound impact of business decisions on profit and loss statements. Excelling in a pricing role at Sony Mobile, he collaborated closely with sales teams and clients to delve into the sales process and customer interactions. Transitioning to Sales Operations and Enablement roles at IHG marked a pivotal turning point in Ruy's career. In these roles, he swiftly became a trusted advisor to Sales and Commercial leaders, providing invaluable insights and guidance. At IHG, Ruy merged his passion for support with his professional acumen, co-founding the Latinx Employee Resource Group and fostering a supportive community for Latinx professionals. Continuing at LPL Financial, Ruy served as an AVP of Business Intelligence and Project Management. In a short span, he earned respect, emerging as a go-to leader for Analytics Enablement. His fervor for fostering communities and driving data-driven initiatives led to a vibrant Tableau community within LPL. Acknowledged with an invitation to the Analytics Center of Engagement leadership team, he solidified his influential role in shaping the organization's analytics strategy.Ruy's dedication extended to founding Comunidatos, a thriving community for Latinx Tableau users, and co-leading the Financial Services Tableau User Group, contributing to the growth of data and analytics communities. His exceptional contributions to the Tableau community earned him the distinction of a two-time Tableau Ambassador and a respected leader within the community. His latest endeavor involves founding the Career PathMakers community, collaborating with Tableau Visionaries, Ambassadors, and community leaders to establish mentorship and transition support programs for aspiring data professionals. Ruy's commitment to mentoring and motivating others in their data and analytics careers has profoundly impacted countless individuals. In addition, he is in the process of writing the book: Tableau Interview Guide: The Ultimate Tableau Developer Job Search Handbook from Vizzes to Offers. Currently serving as a Tableau Evangelist at Keyrus, Ruy shares his extensive knowledge with fellow data and analytics consultants. Collaborating across diverse industries, he assists clients in solving intricate business problems through innovative analytics solutions. Ruy Aguilar's unwavering dedication to operational excellence, community building, and mentoring aspiring data professionals has solidified his reputation as a highly regarded leader in the field of business operations and analytics. With his profound expertise and unceasing pursuit of excellence, Ruy continues to create a meaningful impact, transforming organizations and empowering individuals on their data and analytics journeys.
Autumn Battani
Autumn Battani is a Senior Principal Consultant at phData where she delivers data visualization solutions to enterprise clients. She is enjoys traveling and all things entertainment which aided her during her time supporting The Walt Disney Company's analytics efforts. She is a Tableau Social Ambassador, 6 time Viz of the Day winner, and recipient of the Michael W. Chrisiani Community Leadership Award and Best Content Creator at the 2022 vizzies. She's also passionate about promoting issues of equity, awareness, and inclusion and advocates for them through the community initiative she co-leads, Diversity in Data. When practicing data visualization, she focuses on efficient reporting methodologies with high quality user interfaces to help bring non-data stakeholders closer to insights more quickly.
Jacqui Moore
Jacqui's passion for visual design, communication, and data found its ideal outlet in Tableau and the Tableau Community. Ever since, she dove head first into the data analytics space, creating impactful visualizations and crafting the analytic data sets that power them. Jacqui's expertise extends to Tableau Server and Cloud administration, training, enablement, and process optimization for maximizing data's value. She is passionate about learning, sharing her knowledge with others, and helping others on their Tableau journey. She is co-lead of the Boston Tableau User Group and #RWFD (Real World, Fake Data). She is also a #MomsWhoViz, an artist, and blogs about Tableau, Analytics, and Design with her husband at DoMooreWithData.com.
Vinodh Kumar V R
Vinodh Kumar is an NLP bot developer and data analyst. He is a Tableau Public Ambassador and a Tableau Public Featured Author. He is a co-lead of various community initiatives like #TheSDGVizProject , #Mentoringmeetup and #VizConnect and #Viz2Educate . He is also the leader of #ChennaiTUG .He is a long-time active social worker, and an avid supporter of the SDGs. He loves maps and spatial analysis and is always in search of hidden secrets in data that can help change the world.
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Zak Geis
Zak Geis is a Vice President of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase. An experienced leader in data analytics and visualization with a focus on enabling insight through best practices, Zak brings his love of Tableau and all things data to JPMChase’s Tableau Center of Excellence. Within his role, Zak leads a small team of experts who share a goal of using their talents and experience in BI to build on and learn from the power of data. Zak is also a member of the Tableau DataDev Ambassador program. You can find more on Twitter, LinkedIn & his website, datatheories.com.
Abisola Oni
Abisola is an analytics professional with over six years experience in driving growth for technology-based businesses. Her interests lie in the intersection of technology, business, social impact and community. Currently at Paystack, a leading payments company in Africa, she is responsible for analysing business patterns, market trends and driving strategic initiatives to support the growth of its key merchants. She discovered Tableau in 2017 when she first started working in the technology sector and has since gone on to found two leading analytics and visualization communities (Lagos Tableau User group and WeVisualize) in Lagos within three years. She realised that majority of the tech communities in Lagos focused on software development and none on data visualization and analytics so she started these communities to fill that gap. Abisola is also a co-founder at Beyond A Curved Spine (an NGO raising scoliosis awareness in Nigeria). When she is not at her computer, you will find her running, traveling, exploring new restaurants or doing crazy things like jumping off a plane.
Filippo Mastroianni
Filippo Mastroianni is a passionate Data Journalist and Data Visualization Specialist. He works at The Information Lab, helping companies make sense of their data and embraces a new analytical culture. Filippo has also several years of experience in online and print media as data journalist, designing engaging graphics and writing news stories for Il Sole24Ore and other media organizations.
His mission is to uncover the news hidden in data, trying to give voice to the numbers and the stories they have to tell.
Satoshi Ganeko
Satoshi Ganeko is a data analyst and a business Intelligence specialist in an airline company. He is also in charge of introducing and coaching Tableau in his company.
He is a leader of Viz for Social Good Tokyo Chapter, and a key member of Japan Tableau User Group.
He regularly participates in Makeover Monday, Viz for Social Good and SDGs viz projects.
Sometimes, he enjoys using Tableau to create math arts. His vizzes on Tableau public are over 300.
He loves Tableau and data visualization. His main focus is to utilize Tableau fully and tell the possibility of Tableau.
Irene Diomi
Irene Diomi is a 2x Tableau Public Ambassador, she works at The Information Lab in London. Irene has a passion for storytelling through data visualisation and she loves mentoring, sharing and learning with the tableau community. She was featured in the tableau gallery 2022, she has 4xVOTD (Viz of the Day), and spoke at the last tableau conference. Irene is a Tableau and Alteryx Consultant, she uses her tableau experience to teach data visualisation, and help company find the insights they need to achieve their goals. You can find her work on Tableau Public (by looking for Irene Diomi on tableau public).
Luke Stanke
Luke has been developing high-end, scalable data science and data visualization solutions for more than a dozen years. He is a Partner at Tessellation, an analytics consultancy. His innovative approach to visual analytics distills complex data into easy to understand, actionable data products. Luke leads Workout Wednesday, a weekly challenge where participants rebuild a dashboard from scratch using predefined requirements and a fully built dashboard as inspiration. Luke is a teacher at heart and has trained more than one thousand global users on how to analyze their data using Tableau. He is also a Tableau Social Ambassador and shares his in-depth knowledge on Data Coach YouTube–which features six minute videos called Tableau 360 and long-form discussions called How To Tableau.
Wendy Shijia 汪士佳
Wendy is a user experience designer based in Shanghai, China. She has over ten years of experience in interface design. As a freelancer, she is always learning new skills to keep herself competitive and up-to-date.
Wendy started to use Tableau at the end of 2018 in a training program. She soon discovered her passion for data visualization. Since then, Wendy has spent most of the time after work on personal projects and engaging with the Tableau community. She regularly posts on Tableau Public, aiming to tell visual stories to the community on topics that she has found interesting and/or important in her daily life.
At the beginning of 2021, Wendy started to work as a data visualization designer. She aims to support the clients with her passion and design experience to translate data into insights.
Toan Hoang
Toan Hoang has over 15 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Management, Big Data, Data Lakes, Internet of Things (IoT), Data Visualisation and the Data Analytics space; the last six years has been dedicated to delivering end-to-end solutions using Tableau. Toan is the Founder of Tableau Magic and provides services in Data Strategy, Data Management, Data Education and Data Visualisation. For those who want to improve their Tableau skills, Tableau Magic also provides tutorials for all levels and is known for tutorials on sophisticated and bespoke (custom) data visualisations that push the boundaries of Tableau. In his spare time, Toan is an avid programmer, Salsa instructor and events promoter, plays the piano to relax, and on top of that he loves to talk technology, data and Tableau. #TalkDataToMe
Rajeev Pandey
Rajeev is a three times Tableau ambassador, tableau featured author and a technical book reviewer working as a senior Data Analyst with AirAsia, Malaysia. His passions include training, mentoring and empowering people gain insights and make valuable contributions to their respective firms. He's the author of two blogs, TableauLearner and https://vizartpandey.com/ helping beginners to experts find analytical solutions. Rajeev, has consistently contributed to the development of a tableau community across firms in India, helping engage young professionals find sustainable and scalable solutions for day to day business problems. His commitment to the enrichment of content as well as exchange of innovative ideas and grooming has earned him the unique place of the only Tableau Visionary from India.
Ravi Mistry
After falling in love with Tableau when playing with public football data, Ravi has used Tableau every day for almost 5 years. He is a consultant, trainer and works in Customer Success at The Information Lab. A huge Tableau evangelist, he also has a love for sports, media and technology.
Ivett Kovács
Ivett has been using Tableau every day for almost 10 years.
She enjoys developing creative, informative, and functional visualizations to overcome business challenges. She teaches Tableau and data visualization best practice courses and workshops at universities and organizations. She has been a Tableau Public Ambassador for over four years. She has been encouraging the community with her extra-ordinary way of thinking while also helping them learn the newest best practices and evergreen principles.
Judit Bekker
Judit Bekker is a Data Visualization Designer from Budapest who loves beautiful things. She believes even small data can have a big impact, that people can only grow by elevating others, and that you don't need to be the best in everything to be the best in something.
Judit is obsessed with arts and design, fonts, books, movies, cycling, plants, food, and so much more. It's safe to say there is more she's passionate about than she isn't.
Alexandr Varlamov
I felt in love with Tableau 4 years ago and has use it every day for 3 years. Currently I'm a lead developer at Playrix, an international developer of mobile games where I am engaged in implementation and development of Tableau. In my spare time I use Tableau to analyze and visualize interesting data, participating in some activities leading by Tableau communitiy. Having a substantial backbround is physics and math, I adore experimenting with data and data visualization sharing the results of the experiments on Tableau Public. I am currently a Tableau Public Ambassador and blogs at https://coolbluedata.com. I am a contributor to the extending Russian speaking Tableau community.
Yukari Nagata
Yukari Nagata is CEO of PATH data analytics&visualization consulting and the the founder of data owned media Data Viz Lab" and provides services in Data strategy, Data analytics, Data visualization and Data education. She supports the clients to translate complex data into meaningful business insights for leaders. She is passionate in belief that Center of Excellence and continuous learning must be more critical whenthan just individual technical excellence we think about real data culture. She is the author of the book of data visualizaion design and the head of Japan TUG.
Lindsey Poulter
Lindsey enjoys creating user interfaces in Tableau through features such as set and parameter actions. She combines business strategy with design best practices to build innovative dashboards. Lindsey competed in the 2019 Iron Viz contest and was previously a Tableau Public ambassador.
Pahola Diaz
I love to travel, to know new cultures and to share with my family. My life with Tableau started in 2016, I enjoy learning, sharing knowledge, and nurturing information to this valuable community.
But not everything is work related, I also consider myself an adrenaline junky, I love to drive fast, skydiving and roller-coasters.
Joshua Smith
Josh "Smitty" Smith grew up listening to and telling campfire stories by the light of a bonfire; today he uses those same skills to weave stories from data. He combines diverse backgrounds and interests in decision science, creative writing, folkloristics, design, and statistics to help people see and understand their data.
Azusa Maei
Azusa Maei is a Business Intelligence specialist and a leader of Viz for Social Good Tokyo Chapter, and a core member of Japan Tableau User Group. Azusa loves to help people solve their problems with the use of Tableau. Her main focus is to create more opportunities for the Tableau Community and has held several large events as well as meetups in Japan. Also, she is the first graduate of "Data Saber", which is one of Japan's biggest education programs. And she had a central role in expanding and improving its program.In her free time, you can find her doing creative work, especially illustration. She loves to see how she can combine data visualization with her illustrations.
Candra McRae
Candra is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Lumodis, a consulting firm that focuses on data strategy, data visualization, data literacy, and digital experience optimization. She loves making complex things simple and helping people identify opportunities and scale their organizations by putting their data to work for them. She is a leader in the data visualization community and serves as a coach for the global social data project #workoutwednesday.
When she is not showing others how to understand their data or how to tell data stories that inspire action, she enjoys moving the conversation forward related to DEI in tech and data ethics. Outside of her day job, she is a proud wife and mother of one, experimental baker, music lover, and (pre-Covid-19) avid traveler.
Eva Murray
Eva Murray is a leader in the data visualization community, running the popular global social data project #MakeoverMonday and the speaker platform 'The Maple Square'.
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 visualisation and for connecting with like-minded people.
Eva is an international speaker on the topics of data visualization, data culture and data communities, has published two books (#MakeoverMonday and Empowered by Data) and is a driving force for women's empowerment in the technology industry.
Outside of the data world, Eva spends time with her black Labrador puppy, Maggie, combines indoor cycling with watching Netflix, has found a passion for baking sourdough bread, loves to cook and uses running and hiking as a way to explore beautiful places close to home.
Yvan Fornes
Passionate Data Analytics professional with over 10 years of experience in this field in the Travel industry (Airline & Hotel). Yvan Fornes is a former Tableau Visionary and an Analytics Business Consultant at Amadeus, the leading IT solutions provider for the travel industry. He helps Airlines to detect revenue opportunities by analyzing and visualizing data. Yvan started his career in Hotel Revenue Management, the department that set the room prices, working for the Marriott Group and, later for the Louvre Hotels Group where he was responsible for data analysis and business intelligence. In 2000, he started working for Air France Revenue Management and was quickly promoted to Revenue Management Team leader on Air France's domestic routes. In 2005, Yvan joined Amadeus as an Airline Inventory Product Manager. He was in contact with the world's leading airlines such as Air France, Lufthansa, Singapore, Finnair, SAS.... In 2012, before his current role, as a consultant for 9 Airlines during 3 years, he used Digital Analytics to help his customers to optimize their websites by improving their Search Engine Optimization (SEO), their advertising campaigns ROI (PPC, display, email...) and their conversion rate.
Yoshihito Kimura
The Last Samurai who really hopes to spread Tableau in Japan.
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 Visionary, 2013 Tableau Iron Viz Champion, author of the 2015 Tableau Public Visualization of the Year, and author of Practical Tableau (O'Reilly).
Paul Banoub
Paul is the director of Agile Business Intelligence at UBS investment bank in London. He is responsible for the design, engineering, and support of a global, enterprise-scale Tableau Centre of Excellence supporting almost 12,000 users. Paul has developed one of the most dynamic and well-respected Tableau Server deployments in Europe, with user empowerment, community, and training at the heart of the service. Paul is highly active in the Tableau community (Twitter @paulbanoub) and blogs regularly at www.vizninja.com.
Mike Cisneros
At various times in his career, Mike has been: an editor; a software developer: a graphic designer; a data analyst; and an online community builder. Today, he uses the skills learned from all these disciplines to provide elegant, persuasive, and effective data visualizations, for fun and profit.
Lilach Manheim
Lilach blends together a background in art history and human-centered information design to tell visual stories. She is also known across the Tableau community as the world's biggest dot plot evangelist. Lilach is currently Sr Data Visualization Designer, Center of Excellence at Visa
Ken Black
Ken Black first discovered Tableau in 2008, and he has been using it to investigate business, sports, and scientific data ever since. Ken has focused on developing techniques for efficiently exploring huge data sets, with the goal of concisely explaining insights to diverse project teams. Ken is skilled in data analysis, visualization and animations, computer programming, mathematical and numerical modeling, data mining, and discovering unknown aspects of business performance hidden in large data sets. Ken enthusiastically writes articles about his Tableau usage and teaching, as well as producing specific technical training videos on his blog at DataBlends.us.
Emma Whyte
Certified Tableau Trainer and Consultant in the UK with The Information Lab. Tableau Server and Desktop Certified. Data Vizzer, cyclist, hiker, general outdoorsy person, and occasional baker.
David Murphy
David Murphy, aka Datasaurus Rex, is unique. He’s a leader in the field of people tackling unexpected topics (deaths in Game of Thrones, scoring patterns on TV quiz shows) with Tableau visualizations, his YouTube channel and humour. In fact, he’s the only person in this field and it’s for this reason he’s a Tableau Visionary.
Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame
Hall of Fame Visionaries serve at least 5 terms and are selected based on overall contributions to and stewardship of the Tableau Community. We are privileged to recognize these individuals for their dedication to the Visionary Program.
Ann Jackson
Ann Jackson is a cat and logic-loving individual dedicated to spreading her contagious passion for data visualization to the world. She is the founder of Jackson Two, a boutique analytics firm obsessed with helping businesses understand their data. Outside of work she leads Workout Wednesday, a weekly Tableau skills building challenge, as well as her local Phoenix Tableau User Group. She is also the co-host of Hashtag Analytics (#AnalyticsPodcast) with fellow Tableau Visionary Luke Stanke, a bespoke video podcast focused on data and analytics. Ann is known for her clean and highly analytical visualizations, commitment to the community, and infinite love of all things data and Tableau.
Adam McCann
Adam is the Vice President of Analytics at KeyMe. At KeyMe he is responsible for building pricing algorithms, identifying new kiosk locations, and analyzing business patterns. In addition, Adam oversees all digital marketing efforts including SEO and SEM optimization. Adam has more than 15 years of experience in data science and analytics with proven ability to transform the way organizations use data. His technical experience includes machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and data visualization. Prior to joining KeyMe, Adam built and managed data science teams at Deloitte Consulting in Washington, DC.
Alexander Mou
Alexander is a veteran data analyst and visualization expert with a particular interest in efficient calculation techniques. As a prolific blogger with more than 250 posts (https://vizdiff.blogspot.com) filled with tips, tricks, tutorials and templates, he has been a Tableau Social Ambassador since 2016. Although, he has worked primarily in the finance industry, he’s familiar with data sets that extend far beyond into the domains of information security, sales and marketing, server logs and process management. Alexander is extremely talented with Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and data preparation. He is also a top contributor to the Chinese Tableau community. When he’s not at work, Alexander likes hiking, travel and vizzing.
Andy Kriebel
Andy Kriebel is one of the most prolific Tableau bloggers on the planet. He uses his expertise to help all levels of Tableau users, whether they are beginners or advanced. He’s been helping people improve their visualization skills for years, and this year’s #MakeoverMonday project has been one of the biggest social data projects of the year.
Anya A'Hearn
The founder of DataBlick, Anya has long been a source for serious data wrangling and aesthetics. Blending her background in economics and product design Anya specializes in creating dashboards that are as useful as they are beautiful.
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 Visionary. 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
Carl is now the Head Coach of the Data School in the UK. Nearly a decade working for financial services companies, Carl found himself focusing more and more on empowering others to help pair their own subject matter expertise with data. By leading the team of coaches at The Data School, he’s helping hundreds of people to develop careers in data. His teaching goes beyond The Data School classroom as he founded and runs the weekly Preppin’ Data exercises to allow people to learn how to prepare their data for analysis. He’s written Tableau Prep: Up & Running, taught new people to the field how to Communicate with Data and leaders of organisations about the importance of being Data Curious.
Chantilly Jaggernauth
, United States of America
Chantilly Jaggernauth's mission is to empower corporations and individuals through the use of data visualizations and data analytics. She is a five year Tableau Visionary who specializes in data visualization, data analytics, design, and training. Currently, she is the Vice President of BI & Data Analytics at Lovelytics based in Arlington, VA. Prior to joining Lovelytics, Chantilly worked for Johnson and Johnson and Comcast. In addition to her day job, Chantilly is the founder and CEO of the non-profit organization Millennials and Data (#MAD). Through #MAD, she works to bridge the data literacy and analytical skills gap by training, mentoring, and preparing millennials to enter a data- driven global environment.
Chris DeMartini
Chris DeMartini came to the Tableau community through his work in network graphing. He has focused on incorporating dynamic aspects to his visualizations as well as working extensively with Tableau's Embedding (JS) and Extensions APIs. He often blogs about these techniques on DataBlick and provides open access to his work and techniques through Tableau Public and GitHub. He currently runs the Data Visualization Team at Visa.
Chris Love
Chris uses his advanced skills not to blow us away with technical mastery but to teach us to keep things simple. This is a vital skill. While we get to see his mastery in his work on Tableau Public, we also appreciate his focus on helping the people who are new to Tableau, or those who just need to do the simplest thing possible to bring change in their organization. He uses his expertise to promote simplicity, not just advanced uses of Tableau.
Craig Bloodworth
Craig’s knowledge of Tableau’s APIs and Tableau Server is among the best. He shares all the tools he builds. He has been a leader in the Web Data Connector space and came second in our WDC competition. He has also worked on other tools for the community, including Yupana, a tool which provides easy metrics for Tableau Server users.
Jeffrey Shaffer
Jeffrey A. Shaffer is the Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Information Technology and Analytics at Unifund. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati teaching Data Visualization where he was the 2016 Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year. He is an author of The Big Book of Dashboards and is a regular speaker on the topic of data visualization and Tableau training at conferences, symposiums, workshops, universities, and corporate training programs. He was the winner of the 2014 Tableau Quantified Self Visualization Contest which led him to compete in the 2014 Tableau Iron Viz Contest. His data visualization blog DataPlusScience.com and The Big Book of Dashboards were on the shortlist for the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards and his Beautiful Trash visualization was on the longlist and featured as one of the 75 best Infographics of 2017 by Column Five Media.
Jonathan Drummey
Jonathan has been at the centre of the Tableau Community Forums for years. His understanding of the product is almost unique amongst our customers, and his ability to transfer that skill into solutions for the rest of us is amazing. Behind the scenes, Jonathan engages closely with the Tableau development team, helping us improve our products. He has also done great work with the Tableau Foundation.
Joshua Milligan
Joshua Milligan is a four-time Tableau Visionary. His passion is training, mentoring, and helping people gain insights and make decisions based on their data through visual analytics using Tableau and data prep using Tableau Prep Builder & Tableau Prep Conductor. He is a principal consultant at Teknion Data Solutions, where he has served clients in numerous industries since 2004.
In 2017, Joshua was one of three Iron Viz finalists and competed on the big stage in Las Vegas. He is the author of the book Learning Tableau, now in its second edition and is working on the third. He lives with his wife and three children in Tulsa.
Kelly Martin
Kelly worked as a senior data analyst since 2000 and has an education in demography; the study of population patterns and behaviour. (MA, thesis defended 2001). She has worked in health care (public health, cardiology), child protection services, and telecommunications and is skilled in social research methods (including data analysis), statistics, SQL and Tableau.
Kelly was one of our original Tableau Visionaries and was in the program for four years. She stepped back from contributing to the community when she was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away on September 30, 2019 at the age of 58.
At Tableau, we will remember not only her skills but also her humility, one of the fundamental tenets of a successful community: Kelly shared ideas with the purpose of helping others, not for the sake of herself. In honour of Kelly’s many contributions, we are adding her to the Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame.
We send our best wishes to her family and friends. She will be missed.
Ken Flerlage
Williamsport, PA, United States of America
Ken Flerlage is a Tableau Evangelist and Consultant at Moxy Analytics (www.moxyanalytics.com), where he helps clients to solve problems with data. He is an active member of the Tableau community, a Forums Ambassador, and a member of the Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame. He spends his time answering questions on the forums, engaging in dataviz discussions on social media, and blogging on flerlagetwins.com, a site that he shares with his identical twin brother and fellow Tableau Visionary, Kevin Flerlage.
Kevin Flerlage
Kevin Flerlage is a Tableau Evangelist / Data Visualization Consultant at Moxy Analytics, where he helps clients to solve problems with data. Kevin is a Hall of Fame Tableau Visionary and is an active member of the Tableau Community. He frequently blogs about Tableau on flerlagetwins.com, a site that he shares with his identical twin brother and fellow Hall of Fame Visionary, Ken Flerlage. He is also a six-time Tableau Public Ambassador, has five Iron Viz top ten finishes, and is the third most followed and third most favorited author on Tableau Public.
Klaus Schulte
Münster, Germany
Klaus Schulte is a professor of management accounting at Münster School of Business in Germany. He teaches data visualization and Tableau to his controlling students in MSB’s various programs and also creates innovative and elegant Tableau solutions for his global clients at CO data. In 2018 Klaus competed on the biggest stage and became the #IronViz Champion at Tableau Conference Europe in London. He is well known in the community for his work on visualizing income statements and for co-leading the Newbies TUG.
Lindsay Betzendahl
Lindsay is the Director of Data Analytics and Visualization at HealthDataViz (HDV), a Sellers Dorsey solution, where she leads data visualization consulting projects with clients from various spectrums of the health and healthcare industry. With 20 years of healthcare expertise and 11 years using Tableau, she continues to be passionate about "telling the stories of our health" through data visualization. She is the co-author of the book Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data, a former adjunct professor of Data Visualization at Temple University, founder of the community project #ProjectHealthViz, and the #MomsWhoViz social network, and is a Tableau HOF Visionary and Public Ambassador. Lindsay remains active in the Tableau community and enjoys sharing beautiful vizzes on Tableau Public and speaking at TUGs to help share her knowledge with others. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two boys. When not vizzing, she enjoys listening to music, going to concerts, hiking, boating, spending time with family and friends, building legos, running, and drinking a good craft beer.
Marc Reid
Marc is a data analyst and data visualisation designer based in London. He's been using Tableau since 2017 and is Desktop and Server certified. He enjoys experimenting with Tableau's new features and is a frequent contributor to the beta program. Marc enjoys sharing his knowledge of Tableau with tips and tutorials on his blog and YouTube channel.
Mark Wu
Mark’s knowledge of Tableau server is among the best. Mark drives one of the largest Tableau server deployments in the world. He has unique skills in server automation, Center of Excellence, and enterprise Tableau governance. Mark has been a leader in Tableau Server Admin forum.
Merlijn Buit
, Netherlands
Merlijn Buit is the founder and CTO of Infotopics Apps for Tableau. Merlijn specializes in developing top-notch Extensions like WriteBackExtreme and SuperTables. With his games like Mario in Tableau and TableauCraft, he blew the minds of the Tableau Community. And his Photoshop in Tableau dashboard became the ultimate benchmark for the Hyper Engine Dev team. Merlijn has a passion for Programming, Data Analytics, and teaching colleagues in becoming better Tableau Analysts. In his free time, he likes to cycle and speed skate.
Neil Richards
Neil is a UK based Tableau Visionary, working as Global Data Fluency Lead at JLL, who is returning for his fifth stint since his initial appointment in 2018. A passionate advocate advocate of Tableau Public, he has been a Tableau Public ambassador for seven years, and loves to use it for creative data visualisation projects, regularly speaking and presenting about his design ideas and inspirations in order to inspire others to do the same. Neil has documented his creative journey over the years in his blog Questions in Dataviz, culminating in the publication of his first book, of the same name, published in 2022. Neil is a passionate data visualisation advocate, having served on the board of the Data Visualization Society and Viz for Social Good, also writing regularly for both DVS Nightingale publication and Data Leadership Collaborative.
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
Rosario is a professional in Data Analytics and Business Intelligence and passionate about logic, mental challenges, and learning. She is a wife and mother based in Monterrey, Mexico. Rosario works at Tecnológico de Monterrey, the largest private university in her country. Rosario loves using Tableau to help people see, explore, and better understand their data to make informed decisions. She is proud to belong to the Community of Tableau, where we support, learn, share, and have fun. Rosario's blog was born with the spirit of sharing her journey in learning and developing her technical skills, mainly those obtained by participating in the #WorkoutWednesday project. She hopes with this help, people overcome the initial problems and/or fears towards technical challenges and that by accumulating tips and tricks, they can be able to solve new challenges and enjoy their work with Tableau even more.
Sarah Bartlett
Sarah has been working in analytics for over 10 years and is passionate about internal community building and user enablement. She currently works as a BI Enablement Director at JLL where she supports a thriving internal analytics community. Introduced to Tableau in late 2014, Sarah soon discovered her passion for data visualisation and design through participating in various community initiatives including Makeover Monday and Viz For Social Good. In 2018, she competed on stage in Iron Viz Europe and the experience prompted her to launch Iron Quest, a community data visualisation initiative designed to prepare individuals for the Iron Viz feeder competitions. Sarah is currently a Tableau Visionary and Tableau Public Ambassador, co-leads the London Tableau User Group, mentors early career professionals, and shares content on her blog; sarahlovesdata.co.uk. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, ideally hiking or exploring new destinations across the globe.
In her spare time, Sarah co-leads London Tableau User Group and enjoys sharing vizzes on her favourite music genre; hip hop!
Lorna Brown
Lorna is a speeding tipping magician, who loves to give back to the community. She started her journey as part of the Information Labs Data School in 2015. Lorna co-leads two community projects, Workout Wednesday with Tableau Visionaries Ann Jackson and Luke Stanke, along with other community members, and Tableau Tip Tuesday with Hall of Fame Tableau Visionary Andy Kriebel. She also co-leads the North West UK Tableau User Group in her spare time. The community is a big part of Lorna, and she wants to do all she can to give back. Lorna loves her cats and sports, especially Rugby League.
Simon Beaumont
Simon is Director for JLL's Business Intelligence Centre of Excellence and he supports a team of analysts to translate complex data into meaningful business insights for operational and senior leaders. He is passionate in his belief that a Centre of Excellence must be more than just technical excellence, it should be underpinned by a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration; beliefs that were all founded on his regular interactions with the Tableau Community. In his spare time Simon's passion is sports; in 2018 he combined his love of data and sports to help co-found Sports Viz Sunday, a community data visualisation initiative to help showcase the amazing sporting visualisations created across the Tableau Community and to help connect like-minded individuals.
Steve Wexler
Steve Wexler is the founder of Data Revelations and co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios (Wiley, 2017).
Steve has worked with ADP, Gallup, Deloitte, Convergys, Consumer Reports, The Economist, ConEd, D&B, Marist, Cornell University, Stanford University, Tradeweb, Tiffany, McKinsey & Company, and many other organizations to help them understand and visualize their data. Steve is a five-time Tableau Visionary, Iron Viz Champion, and Tableau Training Partner.
His presentations and training classes combine an extraordinary level of product mastery with the real-world experience gained through developing thousands of visualizations for dozens of clients. Steve has taught thousands of people in both large and small organizations and is known for conducting his seminars with clarity, patience, and humor.
Tamas Foldi
The white-hat hacker of Tableau Server, Tamas breaks Tableau Server so you don’t have to. His extensive knowledge of Tableau Server and its APIs allows him to manipulate Tableau like no other person. Fortunately, he uses these skills to build and share incredible tips for the Server admin community. He strives to help customers and advises the Tableau development team on ways in which we can improve our products.
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