Big Data Influencers Q4 2013
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Onalytica 2013 Q4 list of #BigData Influencers on Tweeter is led by @KirkDBorne, @jameskobielus, @timoelliott, @BernardMarr, and @kdnuggets. We compare their list with Klout and find only one intersection among top influencers.
Gregory Piatetsky, Nov 15, 2013.
Onalytica has done an interesting analysis of Big Data influencers on Tweeter.
They took the tweets for the last 6 months containing the hashtag #BigData and treated mentions of other tweeters as a link. This initial network was made up of about 150,000 nodes. After removing isolated components, they ranked the nodes by PageRank.
The methodology is different from their previous Big Data ranking based on Betweenness Centrality. Onalytica says that Betweenness Centrality puts connectors higher, but they found that PageRank more effectively highlights the real influencers in the network.
Of course, no two rankings will be exactly the same, so for comparison I also added Klout, which considers not only Tweeter, but also Facebook, LinkedIn and other networks. Here are the top 20 entries in Onalytica list.
| Onalytica Rank |
Name | Twitter Followers |
Klout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kirk Borne | @KirkDBorne | 6,643 | 65 |
| 2 | James Kobielus | @jameskobielus | 10,624 | 55 |
| 3 | Timo Elliott | @timoelliott | 10,768 | 64 |
| 4 | Bernard Marr | @BernardMarr | 67,792 | 68 |
| 5 | Gregory Piatetsky | @kdnuggets | 14,395 | 67 |
| 6 | Thor Olavsrud | @ThorOlavsrud | 1,083 | 51 |
| 7 | Phil Simon | @philsimon | 3,908 | 64 |
| 8 | Brian Eastwood | @Brian_Eastwood | 2,420 | 60 |
| 9 | R Ray Wang | @rwang0 | 41,075 | 70 |
| 10 | E.G.Nadhan | @NadhanAtHP | 621 | 52 |
| 11 | Mike Gualtieri | @mgualtieri | 37,263 | 59 |
| 12 | Steve Lucas | @nstevenlucas | 4,152 | 58 |
| 13 | Doug Laney | @Doug_Laney | 15,539 | 66 |
| 14 | Natasha Bishop | @Natasha_D_G | 1,526 | 62 |
| 15 | Doug Henschen | @DHenschen | 3,078 | 60 |
| 16 | Michael Cavaretta | @mjcavaretta | 2,040 | 56 |
| 17 | Kenneth Cukier | @kncukier | 3,548 | 56 |
| 18 | V Mayer-Schonberger | @Viktor_MS | 1,095 | 51 |
| 19 | Joab Jackson | @Joab_Jackson | 4,418 | 57 |
| 20 | Sharon Machlis | @sharon000 | 2,024 | 60 |
For comparison, here are 
Klout Top Big Data Influencers, as of Nov 15, 2013.
We only see one name in common between Onalytica and Klout lists, which I am pleased to note is @kdnuggets.
The chart below shows there is no correlation between Onalytica rank and Klout. 
Here is Onalytica full list of 200 top Big Data influencers.