Innovation Enterprise has compiled a top 30 list for individuals in big data that have had a large impact on the development or popularity of the industry.
Here is an interesting list of top 30 people in Big Data & Analytics, created by Innovation Enterprise.
Unlike other lists, this is not based on Twitter or social media, but also on contributing directly to the industry, and focuses on those who had important parts to play in its growth and sustained popularity.
- Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, for creating Hadoop
- Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google
- Edward Snowden, NSA Whistleblower
- Rob Bearden, founder of Hortonworks
- Kirk D. Borne, professor and co-creator of the field of astroinformatics
- Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha
- Rich Miner, co-founder of Android and a pioneer in the mobile space.
- Jamie Miller, CIO at GE
- DJ Patil, a data science pioneer, coined the term “data scientist” with Jeff Hammerbacher
- Monica Rogati, VP of Data at Jawbone
- Jeff Smith, CIO at IBM
- Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon
- Andy Palmer, co-founder and CEO of TamR
- Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, co-founder of KDD and SIGKDD, KDnuggets President
- Vincent Granville, co-founder of DSC
- Sverre Jarp, ex-CTO at CERN openlab
- Tom Reilly, CEO at Cloudera
- Tom Davenport, thought leader and author in analytics and business process innovation
- John Schroeder and M. C. Srivas, co-founders of MapR
- Scott Howe, President and CEO at Acxiom
- Hilary Mason, was the Chief Scientist at Bitly, founder at Fast Forward Labs
- Edwina Dunn and Clive Humby, founders of Dunnhumby
- Anmol Modan, co-founder and CEO at Ginger.io
- Chris Towers, head of big data channel at Innovation Enterprise
- Billy Beane, baseball coach that inspired Moneyball
- Tim O’Reilly, owner of O’Reilly Media
- Vadim Kutsyy, head of Inc Data Lab at eBay
- Warren Buffett, renowned investor
- Arijit Sengupta, CEO at BeyondCore
- Paco Nathan, well-known data blogger
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