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I found LinkedIn Skills useful, but with many holes. Data mining "skill", while declined by 1% vs last year, greatly dominates other related skills, like Predictive Analytics or Web Mining
I recently came across LinkedIn Skills directories -
turns out I have a top listing among
Knowledge Discovery Professionals (~ 240 people), which is gratifying, since I coined the term "Knowledge Discovery in Data" and started the
Knowledge Discovery in Data meetings in 1989.
However, while "Knowledge Discovery" remains popular among researchers, in the industry "Data Mining" has been much more popular, and since about 2006 (see
Analytics surpassing Data Mining?)
"Analytics" in various flavors, such as "Predictive Analytics".
Top LinkedIn
Data Mining Professionals are
- Ronny Kohavi, Partner Architect at Microsoft
- Dean Abbott, Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Expert
- Karl Rexer, Data Mining & Analytic CRM Consulting
- Rob Cooley, CTO at OptiMine Software
- Andreas Weigend, People and Data / Weigend Associates LLC
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Analytics/Data Mining Consultant; Editor, KDnuggets; Founder KDD/SIGKDD
- Michael Berry, Founder and Principal, Data Miners, Inc.
- Robert Grossman, Professor at the University of Chicago and Partner at Open Data Group
It is not clear how the ranking is determined, but it is not only by number of connections,
since #2 on that list, Dean Abbott, has about 40% fewer connections than #3, Karl Rexer.
Relative size of different LinkedIn Skills.
While "data mining" growth has been -1% vs last year (compared to +5% for "web mining" skill),
the "size" of data mining (I assume it is the number of people with that skill) is about 22,000,
much more than for related fields like "Predictive Modeling" (2,500), "Text Mining" (~1,800), "Web Mining" (320), and "Predictive Analytics" (~ 3,000).
Top
Predictive Analytics Professionals are
- Dean Abbott, Data Mining and Predictive Analytics Expert
- Karl Rexer, Data Mining & Analytic CRM Consulting
- Khosrow Hassibi, Principal Solutions Architect at SAS Institute Inc
- Jason Verlen, Director, Product Strategy & Product Management, Predictive Analytics at IBM
- Iqbal Kaur, Analytics & Reporting Leader at Target
- Vincent Granville, Chief Scientist at LookSmart
- James Taylor, Leading authority on Decision Management. Independent analyst/consultant in business rules and predictive analytics
- Tom Khabaza, Predictive Analytics & Data Mining
The lists of "related" fields look mostly plausible, but there are glaring omissions, for example "Predictive Analytics" or "Knowledge Discovery" are not related to "Data Mining", according to LinkedIn.
Is it because that people do not list both on their profiles?
What do you think about LinkedIn Skills?
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