Data Scientists.....not so rare as you think....some worth following

So I have read a lot about the shortage of data scientists…well on a scan of my LinkedIn 1st and 2nd connections I can see that outside of SFO there are not many ….. here is a selection worth watching.

Andreas Weigend Stanford and x Chief Scientist at Amazon.com

Dale Lord - Data Scientist at Moneysupermarket.com

Bob Rapp - Center of Excellence Data Center Transformation and Private Cloud at Microsoft

Christian Posse - Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn

Hugo Gävert - Senior Data Scientist

Jim Porzak - Senior Data Scientist at Viadeo

Petri Kärkäs -  Data Scientist at Nokia

Bryan Gumm  -Senior Data Scientist @ Netflix

Jeff Hammerbacher - Chief Scientist, Cloudera

Pat Hanrahan - chief scientist and co-founder, Tableau Software

Monica Rogati - Senior Data Scientist, LinkedIn

Peter Skomoroch - Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn

DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence Greaylock Ventures

Sebastian Thrun - Professor, Stanford University

Peter Norvig - Data Scientist, Google

Elizabeth Warren - Candidate, U.S. Senate (Massachusetts)

Todd Park - CTO, Department of Health and Human Services

Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Professor, MIT

Michael Schmidt - Computer Scientists, Cornell University

Chris Diehl  - Senior Data Scientist, Jive Software

Daniel Tunkelang - Principal Data Scientist at LinkedIn

Steven Hillion - Vice President of Analytics at EMC Greenplum

John Rauser - principal engineer Amazon's

Michael Driscoll Co-founder,  Metamarkets

Amy Heineike - Director of Mathematics, Quid

And Larry Page