This article lists the top 20 most influential individuals on Twitter for Hadoop in 2015. It describes how the rankings were determined by combining scores from two Twitter analytics applications. The list is dominated by people from Cloudera, which employs 4 of the top 5 individuals. The article also previews predictions for the rise of machine learning applications on Hadoop in 2016.

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Hadoop
Top
20
Influencers
for
2015
By
Tom
Howells,
Staff
Writer,
Fraud
&
Technology
Wire
In
our
2015
predictions,
published
at
the
end
of
2014,
we
suggested
that
2015
would
be
the
year
of
native
Hadoop
applications.
This
has
proven
to
be
the
case.
The
validity
of
this
prediction
was
confirmed
by
the
focus
around
Hadoop
applications
at
the
Strata
conferences
this
year
and
in
multiple
other
forums
and
publications.
In
light
of
the
growing
focus
on
Hadoop,
we
have
compiled
a
list
of
the
top
20
most
influential
individuals
around
the
space.
To
create
this
list
we
used
the
Twitter
applications
LittleBird
and
Right
Relevance.
Both
applications
have
a
formula
to
calculate
the
most
influential
Twitter
handles
around
particular
topics.
We
combined
these
two
rankings,
awarding
20
points
for
being
the
most
influential
on
a
platform,
to
give
each
influencer
a
score
out
of
40.
Tie
breakers
were
awarded
to
the
individual
with
the
most
followers.
Cloudera
in
particular
has
a
very
strong
presence
in
the
rankings,
employing
four
of
the
top
five
individual
contributors
and
over
a
quarter
of
the
20
most
active
authors.
The
Hadoop
Top
20
Influencers
for
2015
are:
Rank
Name
Twitter
Handle
Followers
Company
H-­‐
Score
1
Mike
Olson
@mikeolson
19.5K
Chief
Strategy,
Cloudera
38
2
Jeff
Hammerbacher
@hackingdata
24.5K
Founder,
Cloudera
37
3
Doug
Cutting
@cutting
16.3K
Chief
Architect,
Cloudera
37

2. 4
Todd
Lipcon
@tlipcon
9.7K
Software
Engineer,
Cloudera
26
5
Arun
C
Murthy
@acmurthy
13.6K
Founder,
Hortonworks
25
6
Jay
Kreps
@jaykreps
12.6K
CEO,
Confluent
19
7
Merv
Adrian
@merv
22.6K
VP,
Gartner
18
8
Ben
Lorica
@bigdata
29.3K
Chief
Data
Scientist,
O’Reilly
Media
16
9
Mike
Gualtieri
@mgualtieri
36.9K
Analyst,
Forrester
15
10
Eric
Sammer
@esammer
7.7K
CTO,
Rocana
15
11
Kirk
Borne
@KirkDBorne
54.4K
Principal
Data
Scientist,
Booz
Allen
Hamilton
14
12
Tom
White
@tom_e_white
5.6K
Software
Engineer,
Cloudera
14
13
Peter
Skomoroch
@peteskomoroch
27K
Startup
Co-­‐
Founder
and
CEO
13
14
Eric
Baldeschwieler
@jeric14
5.1K
Hadoop
Technical
Advisor
13
15
Doug
Laney
@Doug_Laney
36.3K
VP
Research,
Gartner
12
16
John
Ching
@HadoopNews
7.2K
Chief
Data
Officer,
Terapeak
12
17
Amr
Awadallah
@awadallah
14.4K
Founder,
Cloudera
11
18
Tony
Baer
@tonybaer
8.8K
Principal
Analyst,
Ovum
11
19
DJ
Patil
@dpatil
30.5K
Chief
Data
Scientist,
The
White
House
9
20
Jeff
Kelly
@jeffreyfkelly
8K
Data
Strategist,
Pivotal
Software
Inc.
9
LittleBird
offers
a
feature
which
shows
all
of
the
other
influencers
to
whom
a
particular
expert
is
connected.
It
also
divides
them
into
communities.
Below
is
an
illustration
of
the
biggest
community,
which
provides
a
graphical
representation
of
the
large
proportion
of
people
connected
to
Cloudera.

3.
In
our
predictions
for
2016,
we
wrote
that
packaged
machine
learning
applications
built
natively
on
Hadoop
will
become
the
preferred
way
to
detect
fraud
and
revenue
threats
in
mobile
networks
against
massive
communication
service
provider
(CSP)
data
lakes.
In
our
next
post
we
will
look
at
the
top
influencers
in
machine
learning
from
2015.
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