Machine learnings 2015 top influencers

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     By  Tom  Howells,  Staff  Writer,  Fraud  &  Technology  Wire       Jan  8,  2016  In  our  short  series  last  year,  we  outlined  how  machine  learning  can  be  used  to  detect  new,  never  before  seen  types  of  fraud.  By  combining  machine  learning  with  big  data  and  Hadoop,  it  is  now  possible  to  monitor  massive  amounts  of  data  in  real  time  and  detect  anomalies  faster  than  ever  before.  

To  create  this  list  of  machine  learning  influencers,  we  used  the  Twitter  application  LittleBird.  The  app  has  a  feature  called  insiders,  which  calculates  how  connected  a  Twitter  user  is  in  regards  to  particular  topics.  It  rates  insiders  based  on  how  many  of  the  other  insiders  follow  that  individual.  Here  are  the  top  machine  learning  influencers  of  2015:    Rank       Name   Twitter  Handle   Followers       Company  1   Andrew  Ng   @andrewyng   46.1K   Chief  Scientist,  Baidu  Inc.      

2   Hilary  Mason   @hmason   66.8K   Founder,  Fast  Forward  Labs      

3   Yann  LeCun   @ylecun   13.6K   Director  of  AI  Research,  Facebook      

4   Andrej  Karpathy   @karpathy   13.7K   Computer  Science  PhD  Student,  Stanford      

5   Gregory  Piatetsky   @kdnuggets   45.9K   President,  KDnuggets      

6   Kirk  Borne   @kirkdborne   54.4K   Principal  Data  Scientist,  Booz  Allen  Hamilton      

7   Olivier  Grisel   @ogrisel   12.6K   Software  Engineer,  Inria      

8   Randy  Olson   @randal_olson   78.3K   Postdoctoral  researcher,  UPenn      

9   John  Myles  White   @johnmyleswhite   14.3K   Scientist,  Facebook      

10   Peter  Skomoroch   @peteskomoroch   27K   Startup  Co-­‐Founder  and  CEO      

11   Andreas  Mueller   @t3kcit   7.1K   Assistant  Research  Scientist,  NYU      

12   Ben  Lorica   @bigdata   29.3K   Chief  Data  Scientist,  O’Reilly  Media      

13   Jeff   @hackingdata   24.5K   Founder,  Cloudera      

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14   Wes  McKinney   @wesmckinn   14K   Software  Engineer,  Cloudera      

15   Richard  Socher   @RichardSocher   4.5K   CEO,  Metamind      

16   Ryan  Rosario   @datajunkie   12.8K   Statistics  PhD  Candidate,  UCLA      

17   Drew  Conway   @drewconway   14.8K   Founder  and  CEO,  Alluvium      

18   Nando  de  Freitas   @NandoDF   4.1K   Deep  Mind  Scientist,  Google      

19   David  Smith   @revodavid   17.8K   R  Community  Lead,  Microsoft      

20   Fei-­‐Fei  Li   @drfeifei   5.2K   Professor  of  Computer  Science,  Stanford      

       

     Graphic:    LittleBird’s  graphical  representation  of  how  influencers  are  connected  to  each  other  shows  that  they  can  be  broken  into  different  communities.  The  turquoise  cluster  connects  people  involved  in  machine  learning  at  research  universities,  the  magenta  cluster  is  focused  around  San  Francisco,  while  the  gold  cluster  is  split  between  London  and  San  Francisco.