Hi Rody,

This totally made my Friday! I appreciate the kind words, Rody. When I started using Tableau more than a year ago, I didn’t realize I am going to get amazing support from the community but I did. I had nobody at my work place to give me hands-on training. In no time Tableau Community became my go-to place for knowledge and software exposure. I learnt a great deal from a lot of smart people and owe it to them for becoming such a good user of the software.

You are right about this being a male dominated industry but it is great to see more and more women joining the stride. There are more women now than when I joined this industry a few years ago. I am a Chemical Engineer (which is also heavily male dominated) by education but in the Business Intelligence industry due to passion and I hope to keep going strong.

I feel like there is so much to learn and so little time, the way I was hooked on to Tableau and helping out in the community was the spare time I got when my data extracts were refreshing for multiple workbooks and then there was no looking back. I feel like solving problems for people gives me the utmost pleasure and there was no better platform than our beloved community because at the end of the day, that puts a smile on my face.

I don’t know if in such a short time I deserve to be an Ambassador, but I want to thank Tableau for giving me the honor and the community for teaching me so much. I will keep helping for as long as I can.

Rody, you have been an inspiration to many. Most of what I learnt about date manipulations and a lot about table calculations were just by reading your posts and your contributions to the calculation reference library . You are on your way to greater heights. Keep up the great work! I look forward to seeing you excel and hope to continue learning from your valuable contributions.

Again, thank you very much for all you have said and done!

Regards,

PG.

Nice one Rody! and couldn't agree more with your comments.

Pooja encapsulates all that is great about our community...Helpful, Kind, Encouraging, Patient, and Engaging (...and of course great Tableau knowledge and creative workarounds!!). Pooja has an amazing ability to get to the bottom, of what a poster is really getting at...dealing with everyone with equal levels of understanding, patience, humor, and kindness and then proving the answer in a way that is 'digestible' for the OP.

People may also miss how many 'likes' Pooja gives to other posts. This shows a truly 'selfless' quality, wanting to encourage others and make the community a better place.

Thanks You Pooja!

Simon,

Thank you so much for your kindness. Sometimes technology and the 21st century makes me think, how people who have never met or seen each other learn so much from one another. I have learnt so much from you and continue to do so on a daily basis. I don't know of anyone else on the community who is as innovative as you are with your solutions!

Thanks much for the words of appreciation!

Pooja.

Poojie is our "girl power" representation* and she is a strong force.  I know there are many women who are fantastic with Tableau (my co-worker, Jenessa, is our "Tableau Goddess"...really, that's how I address her) but it's fantastic to have one who goes above and beyond their regular job to reach out and help others so thoughtfully.  I hope she will continue to stay with our community and be a role model for other females.

Can't wait to meet my li'l Tableau Sista at the conference

*Of course we all fall under Mamma Tracy's wing

Rody Zakovich and Simon Runc

See this is what I meant when I said, toby.erkson is so funny and his posts are fun to read and now I can't stop laughing. My colleagues are like, 'Pooja, its Tuesday and it isn't even time to go home yet' what in the world would make you laugh like this? Too bad they don't know the answer. haha!

I can't wait to meet you either, Toby!

Couldn't agree more Rody Zakovich and Simon Runc. Great work Pooja Gandhi.

I have been off the community lately due to relocating the family to Bay Area after 20 years in Chicago.. Phew!. Dust has been settling now and we will back in the community pretty soon!

Love to catch up with my bros & sis's of the community at the DATA15!

..kk