Tableau Community leaders share their top 2021 highlights

From writing Tableau books to starting TikTok accounts and being more involved with the Tableau Foundation—hear from the DataFam on some of their top 2021 highlights.

We reached out to some Tableau Community leaders to share their 2021 highlights with us! Watch the video below and hear what they had to say.

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Connect with the Community leaders featured and read their full 2021 highlights:

Gabrielle Wilson - Tableau Student Ambassador
- My Tableau 2021 highlight has been without a doubt, sharing my love for data by starting my own YouTube and TikTok channel called Code With Gab where I make exciting videos on all things Tableau.
Timothy Vermeiren - Tableau DataDev Ambassador
- My 2021 highlight was the remake of the developer portal—it brings all the APIs and tools together and makes it even more accessible to aspiring DataDevs.
Ken Flerlage - Tableau Zen Master and Forums Ambassador
- My favorite memory from 2021 was watching Iron Viz at Tableau Conference—Sam Parsons, Lisa Trescott, and Pradeep Kumar G competing on stage, and congratulations to Lisa on her huge win!
Kevin Flerlage - Tableau Zen Master and Public Ambassador
- My favorite moment of 2021 was the Tableau Vizzie Awards where we got to see people that were doing incredible work, get rewarded for it. Can't wait to do it again in 2022.
Lindsay Betzendahl - Tableau Zen Master and Public Ambassador
- My 2021 Tableau highlight was discovering so many new authors and their crazy good vizzes on Tableau Public.
Chantilly Jaggernauth - Tableau Zen Master and Public Ambassador
- My 2021 highlight was working with the Tableau Foundation to help build impactful visualizations for the Racial Equity Data Hub.
Jason Khu - Tableau Student Ambassador
- My 2021 highlight was starting my own personal blog and securing an analyst internship role.

Zainab Ayodimeji - Tableau Public Ambassador
- My favorite accomplishment of 2021 was definitely landing my dream role as a Data Scientist at Spotify. So I started using Tableau in 2020 and my work was fortunately enough published in the Viz Gallery. Somebody from Spotify saw it and said, "hey, I thought you should apply for this role" and the rest is history!
Veronica Simoes - Tableau Forums Ambassador
- My favorite highlight from 2021 was virtual connections.
Yuzo Tokutani - Tableau User Group Ambassador
- I wrote a Tableau book this year. The title is "How to Build Data Driven Team Starts Moving". It will be published next February in Japan!
Pradeep Kumar G, Tableau Public Ambassador
- My 2021 highlight was building a viz in under 20 minutes during the Iron Viz finals.