Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

UPDATED on 2/14/2019

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#3 is Aviva’s Friend

From analysts to authors, these influencers’ insights, advice, and points of view will keep you better informed when it comes to analytics, BI, and its relation to successfully moving both people and brands forward in 2019:

1. Kirk Borne

Principal Data Scientist and Executive Advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton
Follow Kirk on Twitter: @KirkDBorne

2. Ronald van Loon

Top 10 Influencer in Big Data, IoT, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Predictive Analytics
Follow Ronald on Twitter: @Ronald_vanLoon

3. KDnuggets

Online Publication Dedicated to Business Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, Data Science, and Machine Learning
Follow KDnuggets on Twitter: @kdnuggets

4. Ray Wang

Founder and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research; Disrupting Digital Business Author
Follow Ray on Twitter: @rwang0

5. Yves Mulkers

Boulder BI Brain Trust Member; Founder of 7wData
Follow Yves on Twitter: @YvesMulkers

6. Marcus Borba

Founder and Principal Consultant, Borba Consulting; Boulder BI Brain Trust Member
Follow Marcus on Twitter: @marcusborba

7. Howard Dresner

Chief Research Officer, Dresner Advisory Services; The Performance Management Revolution Author
Follow Howard on Twitter: @howarddresner

8. Cindi Howson

Research Vice President, Gartner, Focusing on BI and Analytics
Follow Cindi on Twitter: @BIScorecard

9. Mark Smith

CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research
Follow Mark on Twitter: @marksmithvr

10. Boris Evelson

Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester
Follow Boris on Twitter: @bevelson

11. Doug Henschen

Vice President and Principal Analyst Focusing on Data-driven Decision Making, Constellation Research
Follow Doug on Twitter: @DHenschen

12. Wayne Eckerson

Founder and Principal Consultant, Eckerson Group
Follow Wayne on Twitter: @weckerson

13. Tom Davenport

President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College; Co-founder of International Institute for Analytics; Competing on AnalyticsAuthor
Follow Tom on Twitter: @tdav

14. Dan Vesset

Group Vice President, Analytics and Information Manager, IDC
Follow Dan on Twitter: @DanVesset

15. David Menninger

Senior Vice President and Research Director of Data and Analytics, Ventana Research
Follow Dave on Twitter: @dmenningervr

16. David Stodder

Director of Research, TDWI
Follow David on Twitter: @dbstodder

17. Rita Sallam

Vice President Analyst and Gartner Fellow in Data and Analytics, Gartner
Follow Rita on Twitter: @rsallam

18. Carlie Idoine

Research Director for Business Analytics and Data Science, Gartner
Follow Carlie on Twitter: @CarlieIdoine

19. Carsten Bange

Founder, BARC Research
Follow Carsten on Twitter: @carstenbange

20. Chandana Gopal

Research Manager, Analytics and Information Management, IDC
Follow Chandana on Twitter: @chagopal

Read more right now from one of the influencers referenced above, Constellation Research Founder and Disrupting Digital Business author Ray Wang. Download The Role of Data in Digital Transformation. Have an influencer you’d like to see featured in a future list? Send me a message via Twitter or LinkedIn.

Tricia Morris

DIRECTOR, SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTENT MARKETING AT MICROSTRATEGY

Tricia Morris is the Director of Content Marketing and Social Media for MicroStrategy. Tricia brings 20 years of marketing and publishing experience to her role with a focused background in product marketing, content marketing and analyst relations. Prior to joining MicroStrategy in 2017, Tricia served as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft. With a previous focus on customer experience and a passion for research and writing, Tricia has been recognized as an International Customer Management Institute Top 50 Customer Service Thought Leader, among the 20 Best Customer Experience Blogs You Must Follow and the 20 Customer Service Influencers You Must Follow. She now brings that same research and writing passion to the business intelligence space for MicroStrategy. Tricia is a West Virginia University alumna and holds a Bachelor of Science in News-Editorial Journalism.

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https://www.microstrategy.com/us/resources/blog/bi-trends/20-analytics-and-business-intelligence-influencers-to-follow-in-2019?CID=70144000000fcbjAAA

Aviva’s friends are:

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• #44 (since 1976)

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By Matthew Mayo.

Geo-data company Maptive has recently published a post titled “A Data-Backed Approach: The Top 100 Big Data Experts to Follow in 2016.” The post consists of a top influencer list that is both exhaustive and informative. Each influencer listed comes with basic professional biographical information, a computed score (the higher the better), and some of their best articles, videos, and other resources. Somewhat oddly (especially given that the list originates from a data-centric organization and is about data influencers), the formula for computing the “score” is not revealed, which is a little troubling. However, as with all data samples, including lists like these, the more the better, and so with or without an explanation of the score we can still gain insight from this particular instance.

SOURCE

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/01/maptive-top-big-data-experts.html

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Bio: Matthew Mayo is a computer science graduate student currently working on his thesis parallelizing machine learning algorithms. He is also a student of data mining, a data enthusiast, and an aspiring machine learning scientist.

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SOURCE

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/01/maptive-top-big-data-experts.html