Recently we hit 400 followers mark on Twitter. To celebrate we decided to do some data mining on you, specifically to discover who our followers are and who else they follow. For your viewing pleasure we packaged the results nicely with Bootstrap. Here’s some data science in action.
Our followers
This table show our 20 most popular followers as measeared by their follower count. The occasional question marks stand for non-ASCII characters. Each link opens a new window.
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8685 | pankaj | Pankaj Gupta | I lead the Personalization and Recommender Systems group at Twitter. Founded two startups in the past. |
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5070 | ogrisel | Olivier Grisel | Datageek, contributor to scikit-learn, works with Python / Java / Clojure / Pig, interested in Machine Learning, NLProc, {Big|Linked|Open} Data and braaains! |
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4582 | thuske | thuske | & |
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4442 | ram | Ram Ravichandran | Software Research Engineer at Twitter. Computer Science PhD student at CMU on Leave of Absence. I bring good luck to my employer. |
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2798 | jedisct1 | Frank Denis | Datastores, GIS, code, infosec, crypto/ML padawan, OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD. Data crunchist @opendns |
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2651 | jtoy | jtoy | I study intelligence, ponder consciousness, build machine learning systems, program in clojure/R/ruby/python, and start companies. My latest startup: @TrueLens |
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2493 | jsuchal | Jano Suchal | programming, data mining, usability, rafting, foaf.sk, @rubyslava, http://t.co/kkdvAP55iS, http://t.co/FgZnbxv0LP, @synopsitv, http://t.co/iU3TYN84O8 |
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2231 | bscofield | Ben Scofield | RailsConf Program Chair; Director of Ruby Central; mostly a nice guy |
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1863 | johncandido | John Candido | Developing predictive algorithms for financial markets and sports analytics. Data Scientist at ZestFinance. ESPN Insider contributor |
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1849 | arnicas | Lynn Cherny | Data Consultant (Data Analysis/Mining/Graphical Data); Infovis, Python, R, Stats, Javascript, Gender, Science Fiction, TV, ex-researcher with Stanford PhD. |
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1700 | jrmontag | Josh | data science @gnip | coffee | climbing | photography |
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1679 | stevegraham | Stevie Graham | steve vai said i’m a great guitar player |
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1642 | jeffgiesea | Jeff Giesea | Entrepreneur & angel investor interested in media & technology. Unfiltered, cold-brewed, bold flavor. #b2b #saas #marketing #stanford |
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1492 | medicalphysics | medicalphysics | Serious Medical Physics and Fun !! |
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1329 | nikolaypavlov | Nikolay Pavlov | Dreamer, entrepreneur and simply curious man. In love with workout, data analysis and kaggle competitions. |
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1196 | GaelVaroquaux | Gael Varoquaux | Researcher and geek: science + Python + data = brain imaging + scikit-learn + machine learning + Mayavi + physics (& traveling… sailing… hiking…) |
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1085 | treycausey | Trey Causey | Data scientist. #rstats, text analysis, computational social science: http://t.co/RqYMUUPIaQ, sports: http://t.co/2isvZCscS7. |
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1026 | statisticsblog | Statistics Blog | I blog about probability & statistics with a focus on Monte Carlo simulations & epistemology: http://t.co/pHEAtfiY7V. #Stats #RStats #Statistics #Probability #R |
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944 | ledaduelo | leda duelo | Re-imaginando el mundo e internet desde 2005, tan f?cil como aprendiendo y desaprendiendo Jazz & lEaN PrOduCt OWneR y Scrum Evangelist |
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909 | gappy3000 | 94?|?Y3000 | Extreme mammal. Sarcast. Nice to meet you. |
Who else they follow
This table shows the most common friends of our followers, that is who they follow. We took a sample of 224 profiles. The sample is skewed towards people who follow fewer profiles, due to technical issues we had with Twitter API. The Popularity column shows what percentage of people in the sample follows a given profile.
| Pop. | Followers | Screen name | Name | Description | |
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43% | 33673 | hmason | Hilary Mason | Data Scientist in Residence at @accel. I <3 data and cheeseburgers and @bitly. |
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42% | 8574 | kaggle | Kaggle | Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling competitions and consulting. We’re making data science into a sport. |
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41% | 5070 | ogrisel | Olivier Grisel | Datageek, contributor to scikit-learn, works with Python / Java / Clojure / Pig, interested in Machine Learning, NLProc, {Big|Linked|Open} Data and braaains! |
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37% | 7030 | AndrewYNg | Andrew Ng | Co-founder of Coursera, and Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. |
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34% | 374533 | googleresearch | Google Research | At Google, research is performed company wide; we conduct and leverage research to build large-scale systems that are used in the real world. |
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29% | 2637 | mxlearn | ML @ REDDIT | /r/MachineLearning: Research, News, Discussions, Software on: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Text Processing, Information Retrieval, Search Computing and alike |
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28% | 4821 | johnmyleswhite | John Myles White | Julia developer at MIT. Author of Machine Learning for Hackers and Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization. Soon-to-be scientist at Facebook. |
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28% | 4172 | wesmckinn | Wes McKinney | Making data more useful. Creator of pandas and author of Python for Data Analysis. Hard at work on something new and awesome. |
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27% | 13938 | peteskomoroch | Peter Skomoroch | My mission is to create intelligent systems that help people make better decisions. Principal Data Scientist @LinkedIn. Machine Learning, Hadoop, Big Data. |
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27% | 73453 | CompSciFact | Computer Science | One fact per day from computer science M-F from @JohnDCook. |
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26% | 18279 | SciPyTip | Scientific Python | SciPy (Scientific Python) and related topics. One tip per day M-F plus occasional other tweets. From @JohnDCook. |
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26% | 108989 | coursera | Coursera | Learning without limits. |
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26% | 4506 | echen | Edwin Chen | Kaggle is a platform for predictive modeling competitions and consulting. We’re making data science into a sport. |
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25% | 12558 | kdnuggets | Gregory Piatetsky | KDnuggets Editor, Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science expert, KDD & SIGKDD co-founder, part-time philosopher, dad |
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23% | 6672 | DataJunkie | Ryan Rosario | Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook: statistician & computer scientist. Natural language processing, text mining, network analysis, modeling. Opinions my own. |
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21% | 3678 | ML_Hipster | ML Hipster | I was into data before it was big. |
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21% | 13791 | bigdata | Ben Lorica | Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Computing resources from Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist @OReillyMedia |
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20% | 122819 | paulg | Paul Graham | |
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20% | 1396 | t3kcit | Andreas Mueller | PhD student in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Python geek and scikit-learn enthusiast. Sometimes I blog about research and playing with machine learning |
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20% | 27247 | ProbFact | Probability Fact | One probability fact per day M-F from @JohnDCook. See link for similar Twitter streams. |