The field of data science continues to grow and evolve daily. To keep up-to-date on all the latest developments, news, and more related to AI and data science, Cognilytica has put together a list of 50 data science influencers to follow on twitter (listed alphabetically). To make it easier to follow everyone Cognilytica has also put together a twitter list that you can view here.
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| @aheineike | Amy Heineike | Primer AI | VP Product Engineering at Primer AI |
| @aweigend | Andreas Weigend | Social Data Lab | Director of Social Data Lab, Former Chief Scientist at amazon, Author of Data for the People |
| @AndrewYNg | Andrew Ng | Coursera | Co-Founder of Coursera; Stanford CS adjunct faculty. Former head of Baidu AI Group/Google Brain. |
| @bigdata | Ben Lorica | O’Reilly Media | Chief Data Scientist at OReilly Media, Host of the O’Reilly Data Show podcast. |
| @furukama | Benedikt Koehler | DataLion | CEO & Founder of DataLionPhD @LMU_Muenchen |
| @schmarzo | Bill Schmarzo | Hitachi Vantara | CTO IoT and Analytics at Hitachi Vantara, Executive Fellow at University of San Francisco |
| @bobehayes | Bob E. Hayes | Business Over Broadway | Researcher, writer and consultant at Business Over Broadway (B.O.B. ) |
| @data_nerd | Carla Gentry | Analytical Solution | Data Scientist & Owner of Analytical Solution |
| @CSurdak | Chris Surdak | Surdak & Co. | Technology Evangelist, Award-Winning Author, Engineer, Data Scientist, |
| @octonion | Christopher D. Long | Headlamp Software | Chief Data Scientist, Headlamp Software |
| @DrDataScientist | Craig Brown | Big Data Consultant | Technology & Business Consultant, Big Data SME |
| @revodavid | David Smith | Microsoft | Developer Advocate at Microsoft. |
| @deanabb | Dean Abbott | SmarterHQ | Co-founder + Chief Data Scientist at SmarterHQ, Author of Applied Predictive Analytics |
| @dpatil | DJ Patil | Independent | Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist. |
| @drewconway | Drew Conway | Alluvium | Founder and CEO of Alluvium |
| @mathena | Eric Xu | Reddit, Inc. | Leads AI/ML team at Reddit. |
| @EvanSinar | Evan Sinar | Development Dimensions International | Chief Scientist & VP at Development Dimensions International |
| @fhuszar | Ferenc Huszár | Machine learning researcher at Twitter | |
| @GilPress | Gil Press | gPress | Managing Partner at gPress, columnist for Forbes |
| @gp_pulipaka | GP Pulipaka | New (unnamed) venture | Chief Data Scientist at New (unnamed) venture, Former CEO/Chief Data Scientist at DeepSingularity LLC |
| @kdnuggets | Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro | KDnuggets | President of KDnuggets, co-founder of KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conferences), a co-founder and past chair of ACM SIGKDD |
| @hadleywickham | Hadley Wickham | RStudio, Inc. | Chief Scientist at RStudio, Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University |
| @hmason | Hilary Mason | Cloudera | GM for Machine Learning at Cloudera. Founder of FastForwardLabs. Data Scientist in Residence at Accel. |
| @jakeporway | Jake Porway | DataKind | Founder and Executive Director at DataKind |
| @hackingdata | Jeff Hammerbacher | Hammer Lab | Cofounder and investor at Techammer, Assistant Professor at MUSC, Former Chief Scientist and cofounder at Cloudera |
| @jeremywaite | Jeremy Waite | Salesforce | Evangelist for Salesforce and the head of digital strategy for Marketing Cloud EMEA. Host of The Ten Words Podcast |
| @johnmyleswhite | John Myles White | Engineering manager on Facebook NY’s DevInfra team. | |
| @JonathanAFrye | Jonathan Frye | APAE Ventures LLC | Founder and Managing Member of APAE Ventures |
| @josh_wills | Josh Wills | Slack | Software Engineer, Search, Learning, and Intelligence at Slack |
| @kath0134 | Kathleen Walch | Cognilytica | Managing Partner / Principal Analyst at Cognilytica. Host of AI Today podcast. |
| @kncukier | Kenneth Cukier | The Economist | The Economist’s Senior Editor. Coauthor of NYT bestseller ‘Big Data’. |
| @KiraRadinsky | Kira Radinsky | eBay | eBay Director of Data Science and Chief Scientist Israel (former SalesPredict CTO, acquired by eBay). |
| @KirkDBorne | Kirk D Borne | Booz Allen | Principal Data Scientist at BoozAllen, PhD Astrophysicist. |
| @BigDataGal | Lillian Pierson | Data-Mania | Data Strategist, Owner of Data-Mania, LLC and Catapult Coaching. |
| @wahalulu | Marck Vaisman | Microsoft | Data Scientist & Azure Data/AI Technical Specialist at Microsoft. |
| @siah | Mark Faridani | Apple | Machine Learning Scientist at Apple |
| @MarkTabNet | Mark Tabladillo | Microsoft Services | Lead Data Scientist at Microsoft Services |
| @mza | Matt Wood | Amazon Web Services | GM, Deep Learning and AI at Amazon Web Services |
| @mich8elwu | Michael Wu | Lithium Technologies | Chief Scientist at Lithium |
| @MikeTamir | Mike Tamir | Uber | Head of Data Science at Uber ATG & UC Berkeley Faculty |
| @ogrisel | Olivier Grisel | Parietal, INRIA | Software Engineer at Inria Parietal, contributes to scikit-learn. |
| @peteskomoroch | Peter Skomoroch | SkipFlag | Co-Founder & CEO at SkipFlag (acq. by Workday) |
| @randal_olson | Randy Olson | Life Epigenetics, Inc. | Lead Data Scientist, at Life Epigenetics. Community leader for Data Is Beautiful |
| @rschmelzer | Ron Schmelzer | Cognilytica | Managing Partner / Principal Analyst at Cognilytica. Host of AI Today podcast. |
| @Ronald_vanLoon | Ronald van Loon | Adversitement | Director at Adversitement |
| @DataJunkie | Ryan R. Rosario | Data Scientist at Google, Lecturer at UCLA | |
| @SebastianThrun | Sebastian Thrun | Udacity | Cofounder and President (and former CEO) at Udacity |
| @tamaradull | Tamara Dull | SAS Institute | Director of Emerging Technologies at SAS Institute |
| @wesmckinn | Wes McKinney | Ursa Labs | Director of Ursa Labs . Creator of pandas, IbisData, ApacheArrow, ApacheParquet PMC. |
| @ylecun | Yann LeCun | VP & Chief AI Scientist, Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science |
