Twitter's Top Data Science, Analytics, And BI Feeds
Twitter is a veritable playground for data scientists looking to scrape and analyze public data. But it's also a great place to learn about what data scientists, business intelligence practitioners, and analytics experts are thinking. Here are 11 of our favorites on Twitter.
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Twitter is a great place to look for big data insights. The social media platform, with its short messages, short bios, hashtags, and simple privacy settings, is a veritable playground for anyone with a desire to scrape unstructured data and do analysis.
Organizations have analyzed Twitter data for insight into elections and candidates, entertainment and awards, and public health, to name a few categories. All the major political candidates have Twitter accounts, as do celebrities. Twitter offers account holders a dashboard view into their own stats for the last month -- how many tweets, new followers, profile views, and more.
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But if you want to get really meta about it, who are the most interesting and smart people who talk about analytics and big data on Twitter? InformationWeek used a highly unscientific method to separate the signal from the noise for you -- human curation of Twitter accounts.
We've put together this list of some of the most influential and thought-provoking practitioners and idea-spreaders in data science, big data, and analytics who have Twitter accounts.
We have practicing data scientists, engineers creating tools for data science, career business intelligence pros who are leading the next generation into analytics, analysts who research and follow the trends in data science, and others.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Like Twitter itself, it is a slice, and it's a snapshot in time. But if you follow these accounts on Twitter, you will get a good feel for the big issues today in data science and what is on the minds of top thinkers in the space.
But maybe you have some favorites you follow who you think should have been chosen for this list. Or maybe you should be on this list yourself. If you know of other great Twitter accounts about analytics, big data, data science, and business intelligence that people should follow, please add them in the comments section below -- and make sure to follow me @jessicadavis.
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Monica Rogati is an equity partner at the Data Collective, a venture capital and private equity firm focused on companies that apply "deep compute, big data, and IT infrastructure technologies to transform giant industries." She's also a former VP of data at Jawbone and LinkedIn.
Bob Rogers is chief data scientist for big data solutions at Intel. Before joining Intel, he applied data science to a number of problems including healthcare diagnostics, stock market predictions, and the physics of black holes.
Bill Schmarzo is EMC's CTO for big data and is the former VP of analytics at Yahoo and Business Objects. He's the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business and teaches business students about data science in San Francisco.
Michael Draugelis is chief data scientist for Penn Medicine and leads the effort at that organization to leverage big data tools to improve health outcomes for patients.
Hilary Mason is a founder at Fast Forward Labs, a machine intelligence research company. She's also data scientist in residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners.
Lisa Kart is a Gartner analyst focused on advanced analytics. She brings a career of analytics experience to her role at the research firm. She has worked at both FICO and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Merv Adrian has been on Twitter long enough to have the handle @Merv. He's a Gartner analyst who is the Microsoft lead at the research firm and also follows Hadoop and NoSQL.
Gregory Piatetsky is a longtime business intelligence expert and educator. His KDnuggets feed offers some of the best bite-size chunks of what you need to know in analytics.
Carla Gentry is a data analyst who has spent much of her career as the interface between IT and the executive team, making things happen with data.
Jennifer Belissent is a principal analyst at Forrester covering civic innovation, citizen engagement, open data, and the rise of smart cities.
Beth Simone Noveck is founder of the White House OpenGov initiative and more recently the Gov Lab. She's a professor at NYU Tandon and author of "Wiki Government" and "Smart Citizens Smarter State."
Beth Simone Noveck is founder of the White House OpenGov initiative and more recently the Gov Lab. She's a professor at NYU Tandon and author of "Wiki Government" and "Smart Citizens Smarter State."
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