There are more than 284 million active users on twitter. This makes following the right person difficult. Our Team at GreyCampus has analyzed thousands of accounts to find out the most influential people in Big Data & Hadoop. After crunching some numbers, we compiled a list of top 150 for you.
Users who made it on our list has more than 30,000 follower, follows 1000 people and tweeted more than 20,000 times in almost 4 years . The most popular keywords within bios are
Big Data, Hadoop. This list does not have any inactive account as well as corporate accounts and the ranks are based on their Klout score and their Social Authority score (Moz).
We congratulate all influencers who made it in the top 150! We now truly recommend following every one of them for interesting tweets about
Big Data &
Hadoop. Click on each twitter handle and view their profile (also consider checking out this perfect parcel of information for
data science degree). Please feel free to post your suggestions on this.
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01. Name: Merv Adrian @merv
Description: Gartner analyst - Microsoft Lead, Hadoop, Big Data, NoSQL, DBMSs. Guitarist, husband, dad, dog lover.
Total score: 128
02. Name: Alistair Croll @acrollDescription: Writer, speaker, startup accelerant. Big Data, tech and business. Strata, Startupfest, Bitnorth. Wrote @leananalytics. Working on @tiltmill.
Total score: 127
03. Name: ben lorica @dlimanDescription: PLEASE follow my other account instead: I only tweet @BigData. Chief Data Scientist
Total score: 125
04. Paul Zikopoulos @BigData_paulzDescription: Award winning speaker & author (19 books, 350+ articles). IBM VP. Trying to be best dad I can be (no manual provided at birth). Opinions boisterous but mine.
Total score: 121
05. Name: Mathias Herberts @herberts
Description: Disruptive Engineer, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder @CityzenData
Total score: 117
06. Name: Gregory Piatetsky @kdnuggetsDescription: KDnuggets President, Analytics/Big Data/Data Mining/Data Science expert, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, was Chief Scientist at 2 startups, part-time philosopher.
Total score: 117
07. Name: Gil Press @GilPressDescription: I launched the #BigData conversation; writing, research, marketing services; http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/ http://whatsthebigdata.com/& http://infostory.com/
Total score: 117
08. Name: Tony Baer @TonyBaerDescription: IT analyst with Ovum covering Big Data & data management with some systems engineering thrown in. Views stated here are my own.
Total score: 114
09. Name: John Akred @BigDataAnalysisDescription: Data Scientist, Musician, Engineer, Analog Audio and Vacuum Tube lover. These thoughts are my own, but I love being CTO at Silicon Valley Data Science.
Total score: 113
10. Name: Jeff Kelly @jeffreyfkellyDescription: Industry analyst covering the impact of Big Data on the enterprise at @Wikibon.
Total score: 113
11. Name: Michael E. Driscoll @medriscollDescription: Founder + CEO @Metamarkets. Investor @DCVC. I ? data, analytics, & visualization.
Total score: 112
Description: Committer on Apache Mahout, Apache Drill, PMC on Mahout, Zookeeper and Drill, Product Architect at MapR, ex-Chief Scientist at Veoh, Musicmatch.
Total score: 111
Description: Big Data Evangelist, Data Scientist,DW SME. Author, Strategy Consultant, Speaker, TDWI Faculty, CTO
Total score: 110
Description: Marketing Evangelist for Oracle. Passion for all things #Digital | #Cloud | #BigData | #PaaS | Foodie + Traveling Family Man. Views my own.
Total score: 110
Description: Chief Evangelist for Cassandra. Data Modeling. Operations. Architecture. DataStax. I travel the world educating and advocating.
Total score: 107
Description: Data, Analytics, Parallel & Distributed Systems Practitioner. Opinions are my own, of course! RT != concurrence.
Total score: 106
Description: I want to understand and build intelligence. Probabilist, computational neuroscientist, AI realist, wide-eyed VR schemer.
Total score: 106
Description: Coalescing the vapor of human existence into a palatable whole; outspoken purveyor of disruptive Tech: #BigData #Cloud #Analytics #BI. #BBBT Alum, #DataWrangler
Total Score: 105
Description: #DataScience Leader - Ford Motor Co. Opinions are mine. Top Big Data Influencer/Speaker - Leader of Big Data Drive
Total score: 105
Description: Co-Founder, @Hortonworks. Moving Apache Hadoop forward since day one, since 2006. Older soul on sports than tech.
Total score: 105
Description: Big data wrangler, analytics alchemist, design nerd, maker, hacker, epicurean, gardener. I ask *& answer* the questions that make peoples' brains hurt.
Total score: 104
Description: Creating intelligent systems to automate tasks & improve decisions. Entrepreneur, ex Principal Data Scientist @LinkedIn. Machine Learning, Product, Networks.
Total score: 103
Description: Computer scientist, data analytics, data science, statistics, programming, algorithms, shiny toys - @boozallen SVP - Hadoop DC - Gay Agenda.
Total score: 101
Description: Founder, Principal Consultant - Big Data Open Source Security LLC - http://www.stealth.ly - also Blogger & Podcaster
Total score: 100
Description: IBM Big Data Evangelist; Sr Prog Dir, Mktg, BD Analytics; Team Lead, Technical Marketing, IBM BD&A Hub. Tweets are mine & don't represent my employer's opinion.
Total score: 99
Description: Hadoop Analytics Evangelist, Actian Analytics COE. Writer. Analytics BI ETL DQ & other alphabet soup interests.Old integration & data mining hand. Sci fi addict.
Total score: 98
Description: Independent analyst, consultant and keynote speaker specialising in business intelligence/analytics, data management and big data.
Total score: 98
Descriptrion: IDC VP, lead analyst team Business Analytics, BI, DW, Decision Mgmt, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Content Analytics, Cognitive Systems, Value Added Content.
Total score: 97
Description: Drinkard & Fervent Reader! Big Data Enthusiast & Cloud Opintar! An Idiot In Spite Of Himself.
Total score: 96
Description: Co-founder and CTO @scalingdata. Ex-@cloudera. open source / distributed systems / data / hadoop. author of hadoop operations from o'reilly.
Total score: 95
Description: CoFounder @influans & @hugfrance?CTO @Talend 2006-2014?Board Member @NanoCloud & @OW2?Speaker?I?#BigData #Hadoop #Spark #Social #Cloud #MDM #MarTech #OpenSource.
Total score: 95
Description: Red Hat Emerging Technologies. Chief Architect, Big Data. Kubernetes. Hadoop. GlusterFS. Open Source. Economics. Adventure. Travel. Rugby. Surfing.South African.
Total score: 93
Description: Qlik Luminary, Data Nerd & BI Punk: Big Data, Analytics, QlikView, Qlik Sense, Tableau, Hadoop, Neo4j, GibsonSG.
Total score: 93
Description: Architect, Cloud Storage @ Salesforce, Committer @ Apache HBase, Phoenix, and Bigtop, systems architect, data wrangler. Ex Intel PE. All opinions are my own.
Total score: 93
Description: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli. Hortonworks Inc. Long term Apache Hadoop contributor, Committer & PMC member. Apache Member. Leading Hadoop YARN project from day one.
Total score: 92
Description: Learnings of Big Data for Make Nation of Kazakhstan #1 Leading Data Scientist Nation
Total score: 92
Description: Big Data health & life science. Cloudera's SME. Analytics on streaming data from biosensors, genomics, signal detection, prediction, prevent child abuse/neglect.
Total score: 91
Description: Digital Marketing, Big Data, Data Monetization, Enterprise Marketing and Senior Marketing Executive w/D&B (views are my own). Telecom/Cable/Media Industry Consultant.
Total score: 91
Description: CEO @Datameer (Most innovative companies 2013 @FastCompany) One of the guys that started this #Hadoop#BigData thing back in 2003.
Total score: 90
Description: Analytics & big data focused speaker, blogger, consultant, and author.
Total score: 90
Description: Big Data Analytics * Connect * IoT * Innovation * Disruptive * H2020 Expert * Liberal D66 * Change often means chance * Opinions are my own
Total score: 89
Description: Own thoughts how to have fun with Big Data, MarkLogic, XQuery, xproc, emacs, unix. https://keybase.io/jimfuller - not a werewolf.
Total score: 89
Description: Small footprint... BIG IMPACT... 24X7@tresata
Total score: 89
Description: Program Manager at #SAS for #BigData, #Analytics, #Hadoop, #DataGovernance etc. Leading German think tank for Big Data at BITKOM. Opinions are my own.
Total score: 88
Description: Director & CTO at IBM. Focus on Cloud, Big Data, Hadoop, Streams, mobile and everything else that is cool. My tweets are my own.
Total score: 88
Description: Data Engineer at http://sum.com . I like Hadoop, distributed systems, and wrangling large amounts of data. I run http://hadoopweekly.com.
Total score: 88
Description: Passion building SW firms from scratch; started @TheHackerati to work on Big Data/Analytics/social/mobile, delivered as Engineering as a Service.
Total score: 87
Description: Fascinated with #bigdata, #IoT,#programming & #devops. Speaker on#LambdaArch & #BigData Engineer at Virdata.
Total score: 87
Description: Aka 'the integrator'. Technologies using #Microsoft, #SAP, #Opensource. Providing #BusinessIntelligence #DataWarehousing #BigData solutions & thought leadership.
Total score: 87
Description: Founder and CEO of Platfora. Leading the industry transition to Big Data Analytics. #YouShouldKnow.
Total Score: 87
Description: CTO NGDATA - Making Sense of Big Data. Customer Experience & Insights / Machine Learning / Lily / Hadoop / HBase.
Total score: 86
Description: Apache HBase committer. Apache Flume Founder. Engineer @ Cloudera. Ski bum.
Total score: 85
53. Name: Paolo Di Paolantonio @pdipao
Description: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Software development, AI, Machine learning, Startups, Quantitative & computational finance, Crypto-currencies.
Total score: 84
Description: VP Professional Services EMEA, Clarabridge, Author, Speaker, Sometime polemicist on Social, #CX , Big Data, Digital Engagement. Southbankophile and Geek
Total score: 84
Description: Solutions Architect @Cloudera. I build data pipelines and analytics solutions. #Hadoop, machine learning, startups #cycling. #ProudIndian.
Total score: 84
Description: Engineer at Cloudera, Hadoop/HBase committer, former Erlanger, machine learning enthusiast, Brown CS alumnus, wannabe pianist and cellist.
Total score: 83
Description: Co-founder of Hortonworks and senior architect. I've been making Hadoop scale up since the beginning. I've worked on HDFS, MapReduce, Security, & Hive.
Total score: 83
Description: Wyo Cowboy! Data Purist, Twitter Addict, Surfing Enthusiast, Risk Taker, Self-proclaimed social media rock star. Professional Recruiter #bigdata#datascientist.
Total score: 82
Description: No description
Total score: 82
Description: Love to discuss things Hadoop and how you Hadoop. I can be reached at aviks\.email\@gmail\.com. All opinions are mine only.
Total score: 81
Description: Co-Founder and CEO of Silicon Valley Data Science. I build high performing teams and focus on how emerging technologies can make a difference in business.
Total score: 80
Description: Senior Analyst at ESG for Big Data, Analytics, and Data Management.
Total score: 80
Description: Wedding dress designer? NO, I'm THEverawang: Canadian (Raptors fan by default), Big Data Nerd, Runner, Foodie, Contextual Intelligence | vera.wang@mulesoft.com.
Total score: 79
Description: Marketing, product, strategy for #IBM Software Defined and Storage. #Analytics, #BigData, #HPC, #Cloud; hockey, triathlons, fishing. Tweets are my own.
Total score: 79
Description: Founder and CTO @PDGTechJsc, @RetailFit Mobile Ads&Marketing.Interested in anything Tech,Data warehousing,BI,CRM,POS,Big Data,OOP,Web,Mobile Technologies..
Total score: 78
Description: CEO of fifteen years. Focused on Big Data, IoT, Social, Mobile, and Cloud Computing. Additional decade in data warehousing, business intelligence, data mining.
Total score: 78
Description: Sr Director of Engineering, CrowdStrike. scala, golang, kafka, Python, Hadoop, cassandra enthusiast.
Total score: 78
Description: Big Data SME, Inventor, Conference Speaker, Blogger, Evangelist; Director of Tech Marketing for EMC Big Data Solutions team; Opinions are my own, of course!
Total score: 78
Description: Founder and Principal @ Big Data Perspective - WE MAKE HADOOP FLY
Total score: 78
Description: I like booze, food, databases, and Hadoop. Currently exploring data integration challenges at @streamsets. Formerly @wibidata, @cloudera, @hpvertica.
Total score: 76
Description: Context Computing. Big Data. Privacy by Design (PbD). Sensemaking. Ironman Triathlons (all of them).
Total score: 76
Description: Apache HBase committer and Software Engineer at Cloudera. Québécois
Total score: 76
Description: I love talking SMAC! #Social , #Mobile , #Analytics and #Cloud . My real passion is Big Data ( #bigdata ) which I believe includes all of these and more!
Total Score: 76
Description: Technology Executive. Big Data. Hadoop. Next Gen Messaging. Middleware. Cloud. Leadership Enthusiast. EV's. Squash. Cricket. Digital Photography.
Total score: 75
Description: Experimenter, Hadoop-er, data geek
Total score: 74
Description: #BigData , #Analytics and #Retail enthusiast My tweets, my opinion
Total score: 73
Description: Co-founder at Hortonworks. Apache Hadoop Committer / PMC member. Apache HBase Committer. Apache Member.
Total score: 73
Description: Interested in Big Data, Hadoop, data integration, data services, agile BI, data quality, data virtualization, Enterprise Information Management.
Total score: 72
Description: Digital Strategy Lead for Big Data & Analytics @ IBM. I'll share my own thoughts on B2B social strategy, tech and sanity during Maine Winters.
Total score: 71
Description: Software Engineering Manager, WANdisco, Non-Stop HBase
Total score: 70
Description: I am a #Munich based #Cloud and #BigData expert.
Total score: 70
Description: Networking, cloud, big data & analytics. Helping improve lives. Equestrian. Sustainable farmer: Life Slice editor@life_slice, http://life-slice.com.
Total score: 70
Description: Principal Sales Engineer at @Data Sift. Product management, hacker, big data, social, open source, start-ups, entrepreneur. Can’t get enough wake boarding ;)
Total score: 70
Description: Enterprise Analytics Architect working on HIE, Pop Health, Clinical Intelligence and a Big Data Hadoop Ecosystem to advance healthcare.
Total score: 69
Description: Offering Big Data consultancy services through datacrunchers.eu
Total score: 68
Description: Principal Sales Engineer at MarkLogic. I blog on NoSQL databases. Author of the upcoming NoSQL For Dummies book. In my spare time I'm a cadet forces instructor.
Total score: 68
Description: Passionate about applying emerging technologies to business, esp cloud, big data, and mobile solutions.
Total score: 67
Description: Director, Educational Curriculum at Cloudera. World's best training on Hadoop and related subjects. Still trying desperately to make fetch happen.
Total score: 66
Description: LatentView, Analytics, Insights, Social, Big Data
Total score: 65
Description: Founder & President of Think Big, a Teradata company. We build data science and engineering apps with Hadoop and NoSQL.
Total score: 65
Description: Technologist with a passion for OSS being used in bleeding edge ways.
Total score: 64
Description: I write about key business challenges, Big Data, analytics, CRM, cognitive computing, and financial services. Opinions are my own.
Total score: 63
Description: VP, Data @Apigee.
Total score: 62
Description: @cloudera The best Hadoop company in the universe.
Total score: 61
Description: Cooking, food, beer, wine, music, inner westie, CTO @ambiata. Sydney
Total score: 61
Description: Spend some time on Apache ZooKeeper, Apache Hadoop.......
Total score: 60
Description: CTO, software engineer, Big Data expert
Total score: 59
Description: Co-founder and CEO of MapD, a GPU database for querying and mapping big data. I also like cats.
Total score: 58
Description: I am doing Web -based engineer in Tokyo .Hadoop / data mining / search / large-scale data processing / gadgets / games / sleep / purring.
Total score: 58
Description: I work as the VP of Development at Oracle. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Total score: 58
Description:Go Data Driven, data driven solutions, open source, divolte.io , Farther of Marcus & Mats, MSc in economics, Value, #YES
Total score: 57
Description: Data Scientist at @otto_de. All opinions my own.
Total score : 57
Description: Apache Hadoop Committer. My english account is oza_x86_64. Hadoop/Fluentd(fluent-logger-java/fluent-logger-scala)/msgpack(Scala/Java).
Total score: 56
Description: Purveyor of Cloud, (Big)Data & Hadoop. Entrepreneur. Surfer. DJ. CTO @Splunk.http://about.me/drluckyspin.
Total score: 56
Descrption: not available.
Total score: 55
Description: The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM position. RTs are not endorsements #IBMSpectrumscale #SYMPHONY #BIGDATA #HPC #WATSON
Total score: 54
Description: CEO of Kauli, PhD in CS, advertising technologies Internet than three times callings
Total score: 54
Description: Hi! I'm nemoton from Japan. I'm interested in essence of communications and ExtremScaleComputing./Artificil Intelligence/BehavioralEconomics/Shougi/Hadoop
Total score: 52
Description: Director of Sales Engineering at Cloudera
Total score: 52
Description: Big data hacker, hadoop, pig, sci-fi fanboy, physics nerd, circus freak
Total score: 52
Description: Exploring the intersection of Big Data, business analytics and education.
Total score: 51
Description: Brit in California. Swimmer. Spare time landscape architect. SAP employee working with technology partners. Analytics, IoT, big data interests.
Total score: 49
Description: IT/CIO Strategist @ Progress Software - PaaS, App Dev, Big Data, Cloud
Total score: 49
Description: Building iCloud at Apple. Built analytics over Apache Cassandra at Acunu. Trying to retain my British intonation.
Total score: 48
Description: Seasoned business development exec focusing on Big Data, Complex Analytics and Scale out computing platforms.
Total score: 48
Description: Big data, and Cloud Senior Program Manager & Evangelist
Total score: 47
Description: Partner @ CSC, College Business Prof, MBA student, start up leader, real estate developer, ex IBM VP & GM. Interests: investing, energy, & big data.
Total score : 46
Description: Distributed Systems + Medieval Studies = awesome. Committer: Hadoop, Kafka, Samza, Giraph. Trying to be everywhere.
Total score: 45
121. Name: Juliet HLC Hougland @j_houg
Description: Mathlete gone pro, Data Scientist @Cloudera. ML, Hadoop, and Diversity in Tech.
Total score: 44
Description: working as IT Architect. love Hadoop,NoSQLs, AWS, Scala, GAE, Android, iOS, node_js, HTML5 and more. i'm geek of gadget.
Total score: 41
Description: Engineer at Microsoft working on Big Data / Hadoop for Windows
Total score: 41
Description: Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Azure SQL Database team.
Total score: 40
Description: Data Engineering
Total score: 40
Arjun Kapoor 2019-07-03 14:28:48 +0530
Thanks for sharing this useful info.