Top 30 people in Big Data and Analytics Posted on : Feb 11 - 2015

 Here is an interesting list of top 30 people (actually 34) in Big Data & Analytics, created by Innovation Enterprise.

Big DataUnlike 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

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

Gil Press, data science writer at Forbes

Paco Nathan, well-known data blogger   Source