Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science – from “Big Bang” to Now


We examine top LinkedIn groups in Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science from the Big Bang era of group creation to present, and identify the largest groups, the fastest growing groups, and 2 main clusters.



Here is the table with the data.

Table 2: Top LinkedIn Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science groups, members and growth, 2015 Q1
Color code: If growth percentage is 25% above median, it is in green font, elseif it is 25% below median, it is in red font, else in black font.

LinkedIn Group Created Members
(Mar 30, 2015)
Growth
13q1 to 14q1
Growth
14q1 to 15q1
Median 1-Sep-08 18377 49.1% 36.6%
Adv BA Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling (Adv BA) 28-Sep-07 174362 72.9% 48.5%
BI Pros Business Intelligence Professionals (BI Pros) 30-Oct-07 150147 20.6% 21.4%
BDASFI Big Data | Analytics | Strategy | Finance | Innovation (BDASFI) 19-Feb-09 128805 81.6% 40.6%
Big DA Big Data and Analytics (BD & A) 1-Mar-12 120776 98.2% 68.4%
Biz An Business Analytics (Biz An) 3-Mar-08 70326 42.1% 36.6%
DM Stat Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Data Visualization (DMSBD) 25-Jul-08 68539 115.0% 62.1%
SAC Statistics & Analytics Consultants Group (SAC) 23-Dec-08 46481 47.3% 37.6%
BD pros BIG DATA Professionals - Architects Scientists IOT Analytics (BD pros) 1-Sep-08 45443 90.5% 54.5%
BDAHN Big Data, Analytics, Hadoop, NoSQL & Cloud Computing (BDAHN) 6-Jul-11 33139 258.4% 112.1%
DW/BD/H Data Warehouse / Big Data / Hadoop / Predictive Analytics (DW/BD/H) 26-Feb-09 32994 16.6% 19.3%
ML Conn Machine Learning Connection (ML Conn) 12-Mar-08 24712 51.1% 31.8%
SAS A&BI SAS Analytics & BI (SAS A&BI) 25-Jun-08 24575 31.9% 21.5%
NGMR Next Gen Market Research (NGMR) (NGMR) 26-Sep-07 24049 14.4% 6.0%
PRDM Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Machine Intelligence ... (PRDM) 2-Oct-08 21813 59.6% 36.6%
ML/DSC Machine Learning and Data Science (former DSC) (ML/DSC) 10-Feb-12 20876 47.2% 65.2%
Global A Global Analytics Network (Global A) 22-May-08 20432 11.1% 8.1%
BI&A Business Intelligence & Analytics Group (BI&A) 6-Jan-08 20000 3.5% 3.0%
RMDS Research Methods and Data Science (RMDS) 10-Apr-09 18377 34.5% 26.8%
SAS Users SAS & Analytics Users (SAS Users) 13-Apr-08 18283 33.7% 24.0%
Actuary Actuary / Actuarial, Predictive Modeling, Data Mining ... (Actuary) 24-Sep-08 17616 27.9% 22.8%
Adv An Advanced Analytics (Adv An) 11-Jan-09 16453 65.0% 41.7%
Text A Text Analytics (Text A) 2-Jun-08 16404 27.0% 20.9%
IBM BDA IBM Big Data and Analytics (IBM BDA) 22-Jul-11 14277 186.1% 66.4%
DScient Data Scientists (DScient) 8-Jun-09 14063 112.3% 106.7%
PAN Predictive Analytics Network (PAN) 16-Mar-09 12604 70.7% 70.7%
RDM RDataMining: R and Data Mining (RDM) 30-Aug-11 11677 124.8% 142.1%
Visual Visual Analytics (Visual) 31-Mar-08 10762 49.1% 31.3%
Adv AP Advanced Analytics, Predictive Modeling & Statistical ... (Adv AP) 10-Jul-08 9185 41.2% 29.8%
D&TA Prof Data & Text Analytics Professionals (D&TA Prof) 24-Sep-07 9086 21.2% 17.5%
DS & ML Data Science & Machine Learning (DS & ML) 10-Dec-11 8895 229.2% 165.4%
KDnuggets KDnuggets Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science (KDnuggets) 3-Feb-10 8560 73.7% 78.7%
Lavastorm Lavastorm Analytics Community Group (Lavastorm) 17-Apr-11 7126 22.2% 18.3%
Pred An Predictive Analytics (Pred An) 6-Mar-08 6945 49.7% 41.3%
DMT Data Mining Technology (DMT) 20-Jun-08 4854 32.1% 24.1%
Healthcar Healthcare Data Mining and Modeling (Healthcare) 11-Jul-08 4684 62.3% 33.9%


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