Big Data Influencers :
1. Alex Sandy Pentland : One of the ‘seven most powerful data scientists in the world (Forbes, 2012). Also among the most-cited computational scientists in the world and a pioneer in computational social science.
2. Hilary Mason Blog : Blog by Hilary Mason @hmason a Data Scientist in Residence at Accel, Scientist Emeritus atbitly, co-founder of HackNY, co-host of DataGotham, and member of NYCResistor.
3. Revolution Analytics : Blog by David Smith @revodavid on using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modelling, data science and more.
4. Solve for Interesting : Blog by Alistair Croll @acroll. Alistair works on a variety of topics, from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups.
5. Blog on Big Data and Analytics : Blog by Harish Kotadia @HKotadia. Harisk is an Industry recognized thought leader on Big Data and Analytics. Rated by SAP as one of the global top 50 Big Data Influencers.
6. Stefan Groschupf’s Blog : CEO of Datameer, one of the most recognised Big Data startups. Has interesting video series where he interviews other influencers
7. The Mainstream Seer : Venkatesh (Venky) Rao, the Predictive Analytics Segment Leader at IBM for North America. Tries to make Predictive Analytics less of a black hole for the general public.
Big Data startup blogs :
1. Big Data Econometrics : Academia focused – Big Data Econometrics tries to collate all the relevant developments regarding the overlap between data analytics and econometrics.
2. Big Data University : Blog by Hadoop, Big Data and information management enthusiasts who love to learn, contribute, and network with others with similar interests.
3 . Big Data Startups : Run by a consultant on the topic, key insights are illustrated through beautiful infographics and give digestible and actionable tips
4. Big Data Partnership : Training Academy with a Blog
5. Guru99 : Big Data tutorials starting from the basics.
Big Data News :
1. BigDataNews : Data Science community channel dedicated to all news related to Big Data.
2. Smart Data Collective : Smart data collective aims to be the central source of news on Big Data. As such, it allows guest blogging by various experts in the field.
3. About DM : Features daily blog and information on data mining techniques, business applications, news and events.
4. The Guardian: Maybe not your typical source of big data news but certainly one worth looking out for.
Big Data Mining and Analytics :
1. About DM : Features daily blog and information on data mining techniques, business applications, news and events.
2. Predictive Analytics : Blog about Predictive Analytics, Cloud Computing, Data Mining and PMML.
3. Making Data Meaningful : Blog authored by the employees of LÛCRUM, Inc., and some of the best contributors in the business intelligence and data analytics field.
4. Deep Data Mining : Blog mostly focused on the technical aspect of data mining.
Big Data Trends :
1. Gigacom Big Data : Big Data Section of Gigacom
2. Venture Beat : Big Data Section of Venture Beat
3. Big Data.com : Latest trends in Business Intelligence and Data Management.
Big Data Industry :
1. Cloudera : company providing software and analysis support for Hadoop. One of the foremost experts on everything Hadoop-related and thus a valuable resource
2. IBM : guest blogging hub collating various other blogger’s insights into big data. Less tech-focused and more applied than e.g. Cloudera
3. EMC Big Data Blog :authored by Mona Patel, Senior Manager of EMC Big Data Marketing. Mona Patel has worked as a Data Analyst previously and is now growing her career at EMC, a leader in Big Data
4. Hortonworks: Hortonworks is a Big Data startup focused on providing its own isolated Hadoop environment. Since creators of hadoop are on board blog can provide deep insight.
5. Palantir: Blog releasing lots of visualisations of data insight. Palantir is a startup aiming at extracting security insight from big data.
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