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Top LinkedIn Groups in 2014 for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science

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We update our analysis of Top 30 LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, Data Mining, and Data Science (Dec 2013) and find several interesting trends. First, we found that growth slowed down in 2013 Q3 but resumed in 2013 Q4 and 2014 Q1. Here are the 10 largest groups (by membership as of March 31, 2014). RDataMining: 126%.

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How Many Data Scientists are out there?

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for Data Scientist positions, 2006-2014" width="500" height="276" /> However, notice that the demand stopped increasing sometime in 2013. As of March 13, 2014, Search for “Data Scientist” jobs (US-based) on indeed.com gives only 1,000 positions. Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D.,

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