Meet the 2023 Tableau Public Ambassadors

Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community. They give credit where credit is due, and prioritize inclusivity in everything they do. They shine a spotlight on new voices, innovative ideas, and make the communities around them better. Tableau Ambassadors serve one-year terms in one of seven branches: Forums, User Groups, Student, DataDev, Public, Social, and CRM Analytics.

What do Tableau Public Ambassadors do?

Tableau Public Ambassadors showcase the power of Tableau Public. They help deliver on Tableau Public’s mission of making data stories a part of everyday life and ensuring the Tableau community is a place to connect and grow. They also provide feedback to help improve the product and create an inclusive space for the DataFam by welcoming data viz newcomers, designing astounding visualizations, sharing tips and tricks, and telling data stories that inspire and teach others.

Tableau Public Ambassadors regularly post vizzes to their Tableau Public profiles (check this awesome Tableau Public Author tracking visualization, made by community member, Josh Tapley) and share supplemental content that teaches new data visualization techniques, shortcuts, and best practices to the larger data community. They may also be highly engaged with Community projects—these are data initiatives that help community members practice their data skills across a variety of topics, products, and causes. Tableau Public Ambassadors are often founders, leaders, and multi-project participants.

The Tableau Public Team partners with the Ambassadors to help recognize and feature the best work on Tableau Public. Ambassadors are always on the lookout for amazing vizzes and new Tableau Public authors which feed into Tableau Public’s Viz of the Day and Featured Authors.

How can Tableau Public Ambassadors support my Tableau journey?

Tableau Public Ambassadors help others grow their data skills by showcasing the power and possibilities of Tableau Public. What can they offer you? 

• Data visualization tips and tricks.
• Data and design best practices. 
• Answer or approach data visualization questions. 
• Inspiration for your next project.

Follow them on Tableau Public to get inspired by their viz creations. Tableau Public Ambassadors are a resource for the broader data community, connect with them to advance your data learning and broaden your professional network.  

Meet the 2023 Tableau Public Ambassadors

The 2023 cohort has a total of 83 Tableau Public Authors representing more than 20 different countries. Consultants, data or business analysts, designers, business managers and many more professional backgrounds across different industries make up this year’s cohort. Meet the entire 2023 Tableau Public Ambassadors cohort. We also connected with a few ambassadors to hear more about what being a Tableau Public Ambassador means to them. 

Emily De Padua, New Jersey, United States

“Being a Tableau Ambassador means I get the chance to extend the same amazing welcome and belonging to this community that I received. Not only have I felt accepted, I felt fully embraced with an overabundance of soft places to land letting me know that I belong here. And to be able to celebrate that progress of any form is a step forward.”

Emily is a Senior Data Analyst at Disney Streaming that loves people, learning, and Tableau. Originally a classical flute performance major, she was introduced to Tableau in her first data analytics role in 2016. She credits much of her learned Tableau skills to downloading, dissecting, and reverse engineering the inspirational works she discovered on Tableau Public. She has been within the first 10 places in the Iron Viz Qualifiers twice with her entries, “All By Myself?” and “Color Studies,”.

Maureen Dzifa Awumee Quist, Accra, Ghana

"There aren't many Tableau Ambassadors nor mentors in Africa, specifically Ghana, so being a Tableau Public Ambassador means that I’ll be able to help inspire and bring to speed the knowledge of analytics and data visualization in the country. I am elated to share my experience using Tableau."

Maureen works as a Programme Policy Officer Data Analyst for a humanitarian organization. he believes that data and its insights have the potential to transform the world. She discovered Tableau in late 2019 and her community journey started when reached out to a Tableau Public Featured Author in 2020.

Ant Pulley, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

“Becoming an Ambassador allows me to push to the next level in the community. I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others and learning from them. I would also like to highlight the importance of building connections as over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to meet people virtually from around the globe and provide help and advice. I’m keen to share my knowledge and network wider.”

Ant is a Senior Visualization Developer at Lloyds Banking Group PLC in the UK who has been working in data for 19 years. He has been using Tableau for 7 years and started using Tableau Public more widely in 2020–he hasn’t looked back ever since.

Priya Padham, London, United Kingdom

“Being a Tableau Public Ambassador for the last two years has meant the world to me. I enjoy helping new members when they ask for advice about how to get started with Tableau and the Community, and I feel like a big part of being an Ambassador is always being willing to help and lift others.”

A Tableau and Alteryx Consultant at The Information Lab and an active community member since early 2020, Priya discovered Tableau Public through The Data School's application process. She’s been a Tableau Featured Author and a community award recipient at Tableau Conference. She loves being a part of the Tableau Community and is inspired by the beautiful visualizations and amazing people. She always looks forward to connecting with community members from across the globe.

Tobi Williams Babatunde, Abuja, Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

“Tableau has radically changed my data analysis workflow in the past year and I want to be able to inspire others to learn Tableau in a similar way to how I was inspired by the astute, helpful, and creative Tableau Community.”

Tobi discovered Tableau in 2019 through Tableau Visionary, Abisola Oni. To develop his data visualization skills, he watched Tableau tutorials, participated in community projects, and reverse-engineered inspiring vizzes that he found on Tableau Public and from Viz of the Day. 

How do you become a Public Ambassador?

While there is no secret formula to becoming an Ambassador, there are a few things most Tableau Public Ambassadors have in common. 

• They are highly engaged with Community members on Twitter and Tableau Public. They are welcoming, proactive, and strive to help the DataFam find answers to their Tableau Public questions. 
• They keep their Tableau Public profiles fresh by adding new data visualizations often.
• They elevate the work of our diverse community by continuously shedding light on new Community members and their work. They do this by nominating vizzes for Viz of the Day or authors for Featured Authors. 
• They are kind, curious, and creative as they are always coming up with new ways to help, inspire and give feedback to the DataFam such as Viz Office Hours, community-led projects, and more.  
• They ask good questions and offer help. This may include collaborating with the Tableau Public Dev team to provide feedback and advocate for new features. It could also include helping those in the DataFam who are working with Tableau Public and stuck on a particular challenge or looking for the most efficient way to achieve something. 

New Tableau Public Ambassadors are selected annually. Interested in applying? Sign up to receive an email notification when 2023 applications open.