• An estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created each day!

• 90% of the information available today was generated between 2013 – 2015

Businesses and governments have grappled with the deluge of data – trying to process it to gain useful insights. That’s what big data is all about!Big data analytics is a window that lets businesses in on novel and

emerging data types.

It answers questions that until now, were unanswerable.

Source: http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/how-does-big-data-make-world-go-round

Influencers are experts who have a strong following and a big say in the big

data world. They influence other members in their network.

Key influencers have a deep network. Their followers in turn influence many more and thus, they have a larger impact and receive more media attention.

So! Who are the big influencers in Big Data?

Source: http://dataconomy.com/the-top-100-big-data-influencers/

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8 influencers whose credentials go before them.

With their awareness and expertise, they have

created an enviable reputation for themselves

in the big data world.

“Watch, listen and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”

~ Donald Trump, Chairman of the Trump Organization, Trump Plaza Associates, LLC.

Nothing beats learning from the gurus themselves!

Source: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/application-management/business-analytics-application-management/

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240047

Profile: Head of Digital Strategy, Marketing Cloud – EMEA at Salesforce, a CRM juggernaut.

Education: Pendleton College, England

Achievements:

• The Most Influential Person in 2015 on Twitter for #Big Data – Onalytica

• The 3rd Most Influential Social Media Marketer in the UK – The Drum

• Author of “From Survival to Significance”

• 20 years of experience in brand consultancy and marketing.

Check out his popular 80 Rules of Social Media

Twitter: @jeremywaite

Followers: 93,600

“In 2016 - I hope to see those same executives not just looking towards how they can

capture as much commercial value from that information as possible, but how they can

create the best experiences for their customers.”

Source: http://blog.import.io/post/22-data-experts-share-their-predictions-for-2016

Profile: Digital Marketing Principal – SAS

Education: University of North Carolina, Charlotte, US

Achievements:

• 17+ years of experience at the SAS Institute, a high profile Big Data company

• Influencer in predictive marketing, data analytics and success stories.

Twitter: @kristinevick

Followers: 3301

As a B2B Digital Marketer, she promotes Big Data and the progressive impact it has on businesses.

“...it helped me understand is that no matter the size of your organization, or your data, visual analytics can make it easier to explore all relevant data quickly and easily.”

Source: http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascom/2013/05/29/seven-steps-to-deploying-visual-analytics/

Profile: Principal Data Scientist – Booz Allen Hamilton

Education: California Institute of Technology, US

Achievements:

• Accomplished data scientist

• PhD in Astrophysics

• #14 in Top Big Data Executives and Experts, 2014 –Onalytica

• Co-created the field of astroinformatics

He loves sharing Big Data stories on Twitter @KirkDBorne

Followers: 53,700

“In 2016, the world of big data will focus more on smart data, regardless of size. Smart data are high variety, not necessarily high volume. They consist of feature-rich content and context.”

Source: http://blog.import.io/post/22-data-experts-share-their-predictions-for-2016

Profile: Data Editor – The Economist, London

Education: Research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Achievements:

•Co-author of books:

•“Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Work, Live and Think" – 2013

•"Learning with Big Data: The Future of Education" –2014

•10+ years working with The Economist on business and technology

Twitter: @kncukier

Followers: 9,511

He is an excellent source of data related articles and projects.

“Let the data speak. Causality is nice when you can get it. The problem is that it’s

often hard to get, and when we think we’ve found it, we’re often deluding

ourselves.”

Source: http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/ei-blog/173-european-affairs/ea-april-2013/1708-big-data-a-revolution-that-

will-transform-how-we-live-work-and-think-by-kenneth-cukier-and-viktor-mayer-schonberger

Profile: A leading company for creating big data storage and processing software.

Managers: Louis T. Cherian, James Kobielus

Achievements:

• A leader in the B2B space for Big Data initiatives

• Recognized by Dataconomy as a masterclass company in Big Data branding

Twitter: @IBMbigdata

Followers: 107,000

@IBMBigData is sourced from IBM’s Big Data hub which has a host of SMEs and data practitioners.

Tweet: IBM's #SystemML machine learning system becomes #Apache Incubator project

Source: http://bit.ly/1NkqP84

http://dataconomy.com/the-top-100-big-data-influencers/

Profile: Chief Technical Officer, Spark

Education: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Achievements:

• Analytics Expert in Big Data, Data Science, IoT & Innovation

• Top 10 Big Data Visualization Experts to Follow on Twitter – BI Brainz

• The 23 Most Influential Business Intelligence Blogs – BI Software Insight

Twitter: @marcusborba

Followers: 14,700

Borba’s Twitter feed is loaded with visual teaching tools for concepts like the Internet of Things

(IoT) and NoSQL.

“Big Data is a paradigm shift in business models.” – Paraphrasing from “5 Big Data myths

debunked”

Source: http://mjfb-books.blogspot.in/search/label/BIg%20Data%20Analytics

Profile: President – KDnuggets, a media platform that covers analytics and data mining

Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, New York University

Achievements:

• President of KDnuggets for 17+ years

• Co-founder of KDD - Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conferences

• IEEE ICDM Distinguished Service Award – 2007

• First ACM SIGKDD Service Award - 2000

• Chief scientist at 2 start-ups

Twitter: @kdnuggets

Followers: 45,500

KDnuggets is a go-to reference for all things Analytics, Data Mining & Data Science.

“Data will move from experimental to deployed technology in image recognition, language understanding, and exceed human performance in many areas.”

Source: https://twitter.com/kdnuggets

Profile: Founder & Chief Data Scientist at Data-

Mania

Education: Environmental Engineering,

University of Central Florida, US

Achievements:

• Author of books “Data Science for

Dummies” & “Big Data for Dummies”

• Renowned data science educator &

speaker

• MENSA Scholarship Recipient, Central

Florida –2006Twitter: @BigDataGal

Followers: 30,800

“Data science is simply the practice of using a set of analytical techniques and methodologies to derive and communicate valuable and actionable insights from raw data.”

Source: http://www.b2bnn.com/2015/09/the-top-10-big-data-influencers-you-need-to-follow-on-twitter/

Whether you’re an aspiring analyst working on your

business analytics certification or a big-data enthusiast,

you stand to gain significantly by staying abreast of what

the heavy-weights in big data & business analytics have to

say.

Ride the swelling big data & business analytics wave!

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