Top Big Data influencers, according to Klout: @cloudera, @hmason, @dpatil, @acroll, @dhinchcliffe, @kevinweil, @kdnuggets, @edd
Klout highlights the following 9 accounts as
Top Big Data Influencers, but clicking on
See all influencers
shows a total of 29 influencers, some with higher scores than
those 9 highlighted (thanks to Jose M Gomez Hidalgo @jmgomez for pointing this out).
Here is a list of top 20 Klout Big Data influencers including the "hidden ones". The Twitter follower numbers are as of March 29, 2013.
- 1.
Cloudera Hadoop, Klout 81,
Cloudera is the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services working with customers in fin serv, web, teleco, government and other industries.
@cloudera, 1804 tweets, 15,608 followers.
- 2.
Hilary Mason, 79,
chief scientist @bitly. Machine learning; I heart data and cheeseburgers.
@hmason, 10,185 tweets, 27,842 followers.
- 3.
DJ Patil, 73, Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock,
@dpatil, 7,215 tweets, 12,624 followers.
- 4.
Alistair Croll, 71, Analyst, writer, startup accelerant. I like Big Data, clouds, web. Involved in Strata, Cloudconnect, Startupfest, YearOneLabs, Bitnorth, Decibel.
@acroll, 13,505 tweets, 10,229 followers.
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Dion Hinchcliffe, 68, Chief Strategy Officer, business strategist, enterprise architect, keynote speaker, book author, blogger, & consultant on social business & next-gen enterprises.
@dhinchcliffe, 11,982 tweets, 20,295 followers.
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Kevin Weil, 68, Director of Product for Revenue at Twitter. Former big data engineer. Digital advertising, ultra-marathoning, cycling, diet mountain dew, hadoop, lolcats.
@kevinweil, 10,557 tweets, 24,218 followers.
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KDnuggets, 67, KDnuggets Editor, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science consultant, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, part-time philosopher, dad.
@kdnuggets, 8,114 tweets, 9,047 followers.
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Edd Dumbill, 67, Technology analyst, editor and conference chair. Founding chair of O'Reilly Strata and OSCON program chair. Incurably curious.
@edd, 6,541 tweets, 5,190 followers.
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Bob Gourley, 66, A CTO. Also find me @CTOvision and @CTOlist. National Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise IT and tech fun are key topics of interest.
@bobgourley, 10,405 tweets, 8,338 followers.
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David Smith, 66,
Data scientist, blogger, and R evangelist at Revolution Analytics -- david@revolutionanalytics.com.
@revodavid, 4,059 tweets, 5,044 followers.
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IBM big data, 66, Bringing big data to the enterprise,
@IBMbigdata,
6,455 tweets, 12,001 followers.
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Mike Gualtieri, 64, Forrester Analyst: Big Data, predictive analytics, & emerging technology. Host of TechnoPolitics. Futurist. Improvisational swing dancing with @lisagualtieri.
@mgualtieri,
8,252 tweets, 31,986 followers.
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Neil Raden, 64
#CEO,#HiredBrains,#consultant,#advisor,#author #Analytics,#DecisionMgt,#BigData.#Healthcare critic.#Racing fan/car nut,#polo,(gr)father.
@NeilRaden,
24,631 tweets, 5,315 followers.
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Pete Skomoroch, 63, My mission is to create intelligent systems that help people make better decisions. Principal Data Scientist @LinkedIn. Machine Learning, Hadoop, Big Data.
@peteskomoroch,
9,031 tweets, 11,524 followers.
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Michael Driscoll, 62, CEO @Metamarkets. I "heart" data, analytics, and visualization.
@medriscoll,
1,643 tweets, 8,694 followers.
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Ben Lorica, 62, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Computing resources from Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia.
@BigData,
2,026 tweets, 10,797 followers.
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Greenplum, 61, a Division of EMC is driving the future of Big Data analytics.
@greenplum,
2,162 tweets, 5,435 followers.
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Infochimps, 61, Infochimps makes it faster, easier and far less complex to build & manage Big Data applications in the cloud and quickly deliver actionable insights.
@infochimps,
3,109 tweets, 8,173 followers.
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SmartData Collective, 61, Expert writers on analytics, BI and big data brought to you by the folks at Social Media Today.
@SmartDataCo,
11,358 tweets, 8,336 followers.
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Alex Popescu, 56, NOSQL Dreamer mynosql.tv, Tech Evangelist @RethinkDB, Software architect, Founder http://InfoQ.com, Web aficionado, Speaker.
@al3xandru,
17,959 tweets, 6,986 followers.
For other lists of influencers in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science see
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Big Data Top 100 on Twitter, compiled by Big Data Republic (ranking according to PeerIndex), Mar 2013
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Data Science Top Influencers, Jan 2013
- 7 Business Analytics Gurus on Twitter, Information Management, Jan 2013
- Who Are The Top 20 Influencers in Big Data?, Forbes, Feb 2012
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Most Influential Data Scientists on Twitter and Quora, KDnuggets, Dec 2012
- Who are the most notable and influential data scientists?, Quora, Dec 2012
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