Big Data 2015: Top 100 Influencers and Brands

Big data has received a lot of attention in the past couple of years from major companies as well as online communities. This is not surprising as there are claims (and proof) that big data can solve big problems and transform entire markets in just years. 87% of enterprises believe Big Data analytics will redefine the competitive landscape of their industries within the next three years. Businesses like GE and Accenture are spending massive amounts of money in studies that involve how the cloud, the internet of things and big data analytics are changing their industries.

The “industrial internet” is projected to be worth around $500B in 2020 made up of the sales of hardware, software and services. If you’re keen to learn more about how big data and the industrial internet are changing entire market segments be sure to grab this report from Accenture and General Electric that contains plenty of insights and data!

Mapping the Debate

At Onalytica we have analysed the online #BigData discussion by looking at over 400,000 tweets from around 80,000 users to present you the most influential individuals and brands that drive this online discussion.

When looking closely at the map we discovered that there is a very engaged community of individuals (red lines on the map) driving the debate. On the other hand the brands seem to be less engaging and that shows that there are good opportunities for brands to create online attention amongst individuals that are interested in big data. Be sure to click the green button below to see this beautiful network map in vector format.

 

Top 50 Influential Individuals

We looked at all the individuals engaging in the Big Data discussion to give you the Top 50 influencers in the Big Data landscape. Be sure to hit one of the green buttons to download the full top 100 brands and individuals for free, including detailed network map to better understand the debate.

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Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	PageRank (Normalised)
1	@jeremywaite	Jeremy ☁️	100
2	@BernardMarr	Bernard Marr	70.89
3	@KirkDBorne	Kirk Borne	52.77
4	@kncukier	Kenneth Cukier	47.54
5	@kdnuggets	Gregory Piatetsky	47.27
6	@Viktor_MS	V Mayer-Schönberger	46.64
7	@ThorOlavsrud	Thor Olavsrud	35.82
8	@bobehayes	Bob E. Hayes, PhD	32.91
9	@GilPress	Gil Press	28.88
10	@IdeaXplorer	JR Reagan	28.01
11	@NeelieKroesEU	Neelie Kroes	26.49
12	@JoeFindsTalent	Joe Burridge	24.98
13	@tamaradull	Tamara Dull	23.61
14	@setlinger	Susan Etlinger	22.43
15	@MikeSutcliff	MikeSutcliff	20.38
16	@jameskobielus	jameskobielus	19.22
17	@BigDataGal	Lillian Pierson, PE	17.88
18	@BerinSzoka	Berin Szoka	17.85
19	@VanRijmenam	Mark van Rijmenam	17.28
20	@lmclaughlin	Laurianne McLaughlin	17.11
21	@babgi	Gilles Babinet	16.05
22	@rahulag80	Rahul Agarwal	15.21
23	@JohndeVoogd	John de Voogd	15
24	@Dana_Gardner	Dana Gardner	14.62
25	@simonlporter	SimonPorter	13.98
26	@DiegoKuonen	Dr. Diego Kuonen	13.94
27	@mjcavaretta	Michael Cavaretta	13.76
28	@jeffreyfkelly	Jeff Kelly	13.47
29	@iSocialFanz	Brian Fanzo	13.44
30	@TheSocialPitt	David Pittman	13.34
31	@rwang0	R Ray Wang (王瑞光)	13.21
32	@ocdqblog	Jim Harris	12.09
33	@Doug_Laney	Doug Laney	11.82
34	@philsimon	Phil Simon	11.69
35	@schmarzo	Bill Schmarzo	11.2
36	@mgualtieri	Mike Gualtieri	10.99
37	@ValaAfshar	Vala Afshar	10.29
38	@data_nerd	Carla Gentry	9.93
39	@mchui	Michael Chui	9.9
40	@Inhicho	Inhi Cho Suh	9.69
41	@dcapuan0	Dave Capuano	9.38
42	@LouisColumbus	Louis Columbus	9.35
43	@michelinecasey	Micheline Casey	8.79
44	@mac_devine	Mac Devine	8.57
45	@timoelliott	Timo Elliott	8.27
46	@danielnewmanUV	Daniel Newman	8.08
47	@Claudia_Imhoff	Claudia Imhoff	8.08
48	@bakercom1	Pam Baker	8.05
49	@merv	Merv Adrian	7.88
50	@JulieBrillFTC	JulieBrillFTC	7.86

 

Top 50 Influential Brands

We found a number of well know brands being influential in the big data debate. Companies like Cloudera, IBM, Teradata, Tableau and many more rank among the most influential. We also found institutions such as the World Bank and events such as the World Economic Forum and a certain number of publications like Information Week and CIO.com. Be sure to grab the full report to see who ranks 51-100 and find your brand amongst the top influencers.

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Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	PageRank (Normalised)
1	@IBMbigdata	IBM big data	100
2	@BigDataExpo	BigDataEXPO ®	95.41
3	@CIOonline	CIO.com	89.53
4	@WorldBank	World Bank	82.16
5	@cloudera	Cloudera	79.73
6	@Teradata	Teradata	73.65
7	@Accenture	Accenture	72.17
8	@strataconf	O’Reilly Strata	59.97
9	@InformationWeek	InformationWeek	57.91
10	@SmartDataCo	SmartData Collective	56.89
11	@tableau	Tableau Software	54.59
12	@TechFTC	Tech@FTC	52.1
13	@mapr	MapR Technologies	46.36
14	@Gartner_inc	Gartner	45.49
15	@Oracle	Oracle	42.42
16	@hortonworks	Hortonworks	41.61
17	@ISpeakAnalytics	Accenture Analytics	40.05
18	@qubole	Qubole	39.6
19	@Datafloq	Datafloq	37.63
20	@generalelectric	General Electric	37.15
21	@worldbankdata	World Bank Data	36.9
22	@OracleAnalytics	Oracle Analytics	36.07
23	@cmswire	CMSWire.com	35.99
24	@wef	World Economic Forum	35.69
25	@DataStax	DataStax	34.93
26	@forrester	Forrester Research	32.69
27	@SAP	SAP	30.28
28	@FTC	FTC	30.2
29	@splunk	Splunk	29.78
30	@DZone	DZone	29.41
31	@CloudExpo	CloudEXPO ®	28.39
32	@datanami	Datanami	27.34
33	@HP	HP	25.86
34	@IBMWatson	IBM Watson	25.35
35	@Umbel	Umbel	24.43
36	@MarkLogic	MarkLogic	24.03
37	@InformaticaCorp	Informatica Corp.	23.78
38	@Datamation	Datamation.com	23.52
39	@SiliconANGLE	SiliconANGLE	23.31
40	@analyticbridge	Big Data Science	23.15
41	@Wharton	The Wharton School	22.84
42	@UNGlobalPulse	Global Pulse	21.98
43	@adage	Ad Age	21.33
44	@ThingsExpo	@ThingsEXPO	21.09
45	@ITBusinessEdge	IT Business Edge	20.91
46	@orange	Orange	20.06
47	@awscloud	Amazon Web Services	19.59
48	@Rackspace	Rackspace	18.8
49	@cloud_comp_news	Cloud Computing News	18.39
50	@Capgemini	Capgemini	17.32

 

At Onalytica we love building these lists and want to give back to our loyal readers as much as we can. If you’re interested in other topics (such as Content Marketing, Wearables, Machine to Machine, Internet of Things …) be sure to have a gander on our blog or why not propose some topics to us on twitter? We also build some very cool software to manage all of these influencers and you can get a free demo at any time by clicking the button below.

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