Tableau’s Next | 2022

Adam Mico
16 min readJan 9, 2022

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65 Next-Gen Stars of the #DatFam Data Visualization Community

Tableau’s Next 2022 Cohort… By the numbers

65 People | 18 Countries | 5 Continents

Tableau’s Next celebrates newer community members or more veteran members who have ramped up their content. These members have a solid potential to be recognized by Tableau as a future ambassador or the program considered the Zen Master program. They share vizzes, participate in the community, blog, and so much more.

I launched this initiative because our newer members, although not officially recognized (yet) by Tableau, are the future of our community and data visualization in general. They represent global growth, diversity, innovation, and leadership.

We will also celebrate community stalwarts who had significant contributions for a long time but have yet to be officially recognized.

Notes

  • Nominators had the option to share why the person deserved to be considered in this Tableau’s Next cohort, some of which have been added to the cohort listing.
  • Tableau Student Ambassadors qualify as their ambassadorship is conditional on being a student.
  • There were well over 100 nominations of more than 90 people. However, many people were disqualified because Tableau already officially recognized them.

2022 Tableau’s Next Cohort

displayed alphabetically by 1st name

Abbie Taylor | England

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Abbie’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Abdelaziz Mahjoub | Egypt

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Abdelaziz helped us skill up in the data world, especially with Tableau. He mentored us, taught us, guided us, and was there for every question related to Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server. He also advised fresh grads and career shift seekers to start their journey in Business intelligence and data analytics with the main focus on Tableau.

by an anonymous nominator

Abdelaziz’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Ali Tehrani | USA

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Ali’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Alisa Prem | India

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Alisa’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Alisha Dhillon | England

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Alisha’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Allison Wright | USA

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Allison’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Anne-Sophie Pereira | England

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Anne-Sophie’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Azaz Ahmed Khan | India

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Azaz A’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Azaz Jivani | South Australia

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Azaz J’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Branden Kornell | USA

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Branden’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Brandi Locker | USA

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Brandi’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Brittany Rosenau | USA

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Brittany’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Cheryl Tan | Singapore

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Cheryl’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Damola Ladipo | USA

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Damola’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

David Brezler | USA

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David’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Deborah Simmonds | England

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Deborah’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Dennis Kao | Canada

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Dennis’ Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Dom Stewart | USA

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Dom is a classmate of mine in Chantilly Jaggernauth’s Millennials and Data Class. Their dashboards exemplify bold use of color and powerful design. I see them as an up-and-coming voice in the Tableau Community, especially around sports vizzing. I admire Dom’s work and believe they have earned a feature!

by Elisa Davis (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Dom’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Donabel Santos (sqlbelle) | Canada

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Donabel’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Elisa Davis | USA

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Elisa’s passion is to use data to make the world a better, more efficient place. With only two beginner training sessions in Tableau, she ended up overhauling the entire metrics and prospect tracking system for the Development team at the University of Nevada, Reno. Over the last five years, she has been participating in numerous training and challenges, attending conferences and user groups, and learning everything she can to improve her techniques and skills. I believe she will be a powerful player in data viz.

by Anna Jakubowski

Elisa’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Erica Hughes | England

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Erica’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Ervin Vinzon | Phillipines

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Ervin’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Ethan Lang | USA

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Ethan is a veteran and has been my boss for the last year but even more than that he is my mentor and go-to person to brainstorm in Tableau. He is co-leading the Tableau Veterans Advocacy User Group and pushed me to participate in the Iron Viz competition this year which was one of the greatest experiences ever.

by Maggy Muellner

Ethan’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Frances Okolo | England

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Frances’ Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Gandes Goldestan | Indonesia

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Gandes’ Tableau Public Sample Gallery

George Koursaros | Switzerland

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George’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

George-Alexandru Gavrilovici | Romania

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George is one of the most analytical people that I know. He’s always trying to discover the most hidden insights in the data. Also, he has a great eye for good charts, simple but powerful design. He knows very well the Tableau features (also the newest) and uses them very well in his work.

by Sergiu Rotaru (Tableau’s Next Veteran Class of 2022)

George-Alexandru’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Harim Jung | South Korea

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Harim’s out-of-the-box thinking is so reflected in her visuals. They are complicated (technical-wise) yet simple to comprehend and that’s what I like a lot.

by Priya Yogendra Rana (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Harim’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Hiroaki Morita | Japan

Hiroaki is leading several user groups too. He has great experience in information systems for a long time. His knowledges and skills are very impactful as well to the Japan Tableau community. He usually presented in TUGs and share his knowledges. Also he always participate other people’s contents. Recently Tableau employee started #Tableau極める

by KT (Tableau User Group Ambassador)

Idris Akilapa | Nigeria

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Idris has become an active member of the community over the last few months. Idris’s drive & dedication to learning are clear for all to see. He isn’t here to play, he’s here to win! Idris is following in the footsteps of other Nigerian community leaders include Abby Oni and Zainab Ayodimeji and in just a short period of time, he has demonstrated that community engagement and hard work really do pay off. His recent achievements include 2 x Tableau VOTD’s, Vizzie nominations, an upcoming Tableau Buddy webinar, and an ever-growing Tableau Public portfolio. I can’t wait to see what Idris achieves in 2022! He’s definitely on my ‘ones to watch’ list.

by Sarah Bartlett (Tableau Public Ambassador and Community Leader)

Idris’ Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Jared Flores | USA

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Jared’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Jessica Moon | USA

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Jessica’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Kavin Kumar G | India

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Kavin’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Kavya Srivastava | India

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Kavya’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Kelly Tan | Singapore

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Kelly’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Kevin Wee | USA

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Kevin’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Line Ton That | France

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Line’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Lisa Trescott | USA

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While Lisa has been using Tableau for 4 years, she’s been a rising star in the DataFam this past year. She recently broke another layer of a glass ceiling by winning the 2021 Iron Viz competition. I see only great things coming from her.

by Allen Hillery (Tableau Social Ambassador)

Lisa’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Lorela Ferhati | Albania

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Lorela’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Louis Yu | Singapore

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Louis’ Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Luke Abraham | USA

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Luke, entered the community in a thunderous way! His vizzes are beautifully designed. Layout, colors, and lots of style. His work in the community is also important and kind. it will surely go a long way!

by Saverio Rocchetti (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Luke’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Michael Dunphy | USA

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He was a student ambassador, but the dude is a beast. Viz art, infographics, basic charts, crazy charts. I swear there was a period he had 3 VOTDs in my discovery view.

by Luke Abraham (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Michael’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Mika Fukuda | Japan

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Mika is leading around 10 user groups at the same time (a huge effort!) and also organized the DATA Saber discussion classroom regularly in 2021.

by KT (Tableau User Group Ambassador)

Mika’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Nicole Klassen | USA

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Nicole has a great eye for design and detail. From her recent winning spree with #VizforSocialGood, #Viz4ClimateAction, and #WomeninAnalytics competitions, you can definitely say that there is an immense potential within her to grow and give back to the community. I find her inspiring and I can bet she is definitely the Tableau’s NEXT.

by Prasann Prem (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Nicole K’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Nicole Lillian Mark | USA

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Nicole M’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Nir Smilga | Israel

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Nir’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Noel Joe Basil | Scotland

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Noel’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Oana Tudorancea | USA

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Oana’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Pallavi Naik | India

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Palavi’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Patrick Sarsfield | USA

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Patrick’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Pearle Lundeen | Canada

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Pearle has been writing awesome blog posts that have been informing the community. Seeing her journey and reactions to the community play out in her writing is inspiring.

by Allen Hillery (Tableau Social Ambassador)

Prasann Prem | India

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Prasann’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Prithak Kumar Bhattacharyya | India

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Prithak’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Priya Yogendra Rana | India

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Priya’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Raquel Merced | USA

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Raquel is a classmate of mine in Chantilly Jaggernauth’s Millennials and Data Professional Cohort. Her work is consistently clean and impressive. She is growing by leaps and bounds. I’m especially impressed by her designs that incorporate Figma backgrounds, as her most recent participation in the #B2VB Thanksgiving challenge. She demonstrates a commitment to pushing what’s possible with Tableau from a style perspective. And, she backs it up with solid analytical chops — her take on the Regional Price Parity MakeoverMonday data set is impressively digestible considering the topic’s complexity. As an added bonus, Raquel’s voice adds to the diversity of the #datafam. I look forward to following her work and believe other people should have that opportunity also!

by Elisa Davis (Tableau’s Next Class of 2022)

Raquel’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Saloni Goel | USA

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Saloni’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Samuel Epley | USA

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Samuel’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Saverio Rocchetti | Italy

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Saverio’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Sedale McCall | USA

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Sedale’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Shazeera Ahmad Zawawi | Switzerland

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Shazeera’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Sheryl Chong | Singapore

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Sheryl’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Tina Covelli | USA

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Tina is incredibly talented at designing engaging vizzes and has a fun, unique style. Not only that, but Tina is constantly giving back to the community by sharing her knowledge or offering feedback. Tina is a breath of fresh air in the community and I can’t wait to see what she achieves next!

by Sarah Bartlett (Tableau Public Ambassador and a Community Leader (formerly known as Zen Master))

Tina’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Vignesh Suresh | India

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Vignesh’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Will Sutton | England

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Will’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Yash Sakhuja | India

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Yash’s Tableau Public Sample Gallery

Tableau’s Next Veteran Class

These 20 contributors from seven countries have not been recognized as Ambassadors or Zen Masters (like the others above) but have much more time in the community. Regardless, they deserve special mention as their content was and continues to be significant.

Adi McCrea | England

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Anjushree B V | Canada

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Ant Pulley | England

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Avinash Reddy Munnangi | Ireland

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Domagoj Culinovic | Romania

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Emily De Padua | USA

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Hunter Hansen | USA

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John Whitmer | USA

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Joshua Preston | USA

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Jyoti Lunaych | Australia

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Kate Schaub | USA

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Kyle Yetter | USA

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Luigi Cicciari | USA

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Mateusz Karmaliski | Poland

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Pawan Sachdeva | India

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Praveen Punnen Jose | India

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Ravi Kumar N | India

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Rodrigo Calloni | USA

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Sergiu Rotaru | Romania

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Spencer Baucke | USA

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Tableau’s Next Founder, Organizer, and Content Editor

Adam Mico

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Disclaimer: Although I am a Tableau Social Ambassador, Tableau (a Salesforce company) had no input on those selected. There is no direct impact on whether anyone will become an ambassador or a community leader (previously known as a Zen Master).

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Adam Mico
Adam Mico

Data Visualization, Strategy, GenAI, & Enablement Leader | Advisory Board Member | Tableau Visionary + Ambassador | Views are my own

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