Top 30 people in Big Data and Analytics

Here is an interesting list of top 30 people (actually 34) 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.

1. Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, for creating Hadoop
2. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google
3. Edward Snowden, NSA Whistleblower
4. Rob Bearden, founder of Hortonworks
5. Kirk D. Borne, professor and co-creator of the field of astroinformatics
6. Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha
7. Rich Miner, co-founder of Android and a pioneer in the mobile space.
8. Jamie Miller, CIO at GE
9. DJ Patil, a data science pioneer, coined the term "data scientist" with Jeff Hammerbacher
10. Monica Rogati, VP of Data at Jawbone
11. Jeff Smith, CIO at IBM
12. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon
13. Andy Palmer, co-founder and CEO of TamR
14. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, co-founder of KDD and SIGKDD, KDnuggets President
15. Sverre Jarp, ex-CTO at CERN openlab
16. Tom Reilly, CEO at Cloudera
17. Tom Davenport, thought leader and author in analytics and business process innovation
18. John Schroeder and M. C. Srivas, co-founders of MapR
19. Scott Howe, President and CEO at Acxiom
20. Hilary Mason, was the Chief Scientist at Bitly, founder at Fast Forward Labs
21. Edwina Dunn and Clive Humby, founders of Dunnhumby
22. Anmol Modan, co-founder and CEO at Ginger.io
23. Chris Towers, head of big data channel at Innovation Enterprise
24. Billy Beane, baseball coach that inspired Moneyball
25. Tim O’Reilly, owner of O'Reilly Media
26. Vadim Kutsyy, head of Inc Data Lab at eBay
27. Warren Buffett, renowned investor
28. Arijit Sengupta, CEO at BeyondCore
29. Gil Press, data science writer at Forbes
30. Paco Nathan, well-known data blogger

Here are Innovation Enterprise lists and descriptions:

• Top 10 names in Big Data
• 11-20 in Big Data
• 21-30 in Big Data

 
Related:

• Top Big Data Influencers and Brands
• 10 Big Data Experts to Know
• Innovation Enterprise Data Science and Hadoop Innovation Summits, San Diego, Feb 12-13