043: Developing on Tableau with Gigi Zanolli

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gigi Zanolli is a developer advocate and her mission is to enable Tableau’s developers to be successful in their usage of our APIs and developer tools. Before moving to Seattle, she helped customers all around EMEA with their Tableau adoption. Prior to that, she worked in IT management and completed a double masters in information systems and computer science. Originally from Mauritius, Gigi decided to trade sunny days for new adventures in Europe and now the US.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, I’m sitting down to talk with Gigi about her early days, what she’s currently working on at Tableau, e-learning opportunities, and what’s coming soon.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The mission statement for Tableau.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The skills required to get into data development.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The APIs Tableau offers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Examples of what people have built using Tableau.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The developer environments that Tableau offers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The history of the Lightning Web Component that allows Tableau to be embedded in Salesforce.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Gigi on Twitter:</strong> <a href="http://twitter.com/illonage"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://twitter.com/illonage</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Gigi on LinkedIn:</strong> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gzanolli/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/gzanolli/</span></a></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Gigi on Github:</strong> <a href="http://github.com/illonage