Data Leaders on LinkedIn

For now, this repo lists amazing Data Leaders on LinkedIn.

We need more inspiring data leaders to create more business value out of data.

Following these people will support and accelerate you to become an amazing data leader as well!

Data Leaders on this list have more than 10.000 followers on LinkedIn and are grouped by data discipline.

Pull requests for more data leaders are welcome and will be reviewed.

Data Leadership

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Bernard Marr	business value of data, AI strategy	1.5M+
DJ Patil	former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, data leadership	745k+
Cassie Kozyrkov	decision intelligence, data science leadership	650k+
Kirk Borne	data science, big data, and data literacy	90k+
Christina Stathopoulos	data & AI evangelization, connect data & business	90k+
Randy Bean	data-driven leadership & strategy, mainly for Forbes	21k+
Jonas Rashedi	in GERMAN, all about being a successful data leader	17k+
Sebastian Hewing	creating business impact with data and data foundation	15k+
Tris J Burns	data leadership and data career development	11k+
Taylor Culver	productivity and impact of data leaders	11k+
Markus Schmidberger	authentic data leadership and strategy	10k+

Data Strategy

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Brent Dykes	data storytelling, analytics strategy	67k+
Dylan Anderson	all about data strategy	48k+	daily, 1pm UTC
Bill Schmarzo	data economics, data monetization	44k+
Tiankai Feng	human centered data work and strategy	32k+	daily, mostly 8am UTC
Samir Sharma	all about data Strategy	17k+	daily
Dr. Kruti Lehenbauer	data strategy and data audit	0+

Data Analytics

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Alex Freberg	learn everything about data analytics	399k+	Mo - Fr, 1pm UTC
Jess Ramos	learn about SQL and analytics	237k+	daily, 4pm UTC
Annie Nelson	data analytics and Tableau	117k+	3-5 times per week, 12:30pm UTC
Luke Barousse	data analytics education and career tips	73k+
Andy Kriebel	Tableau tips & tricks	63k+	daily, 8am UTC
Kat Greenbrook	data visualization and storytelling	13k+

Data Engineering

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Zach Wilson	everything to improve your Data Engineering skills	475k+
Andreas Kretz	data engineering, big data, cloud architecture	139k+
Maxime Beauchemin	creator of Apache Airflow, data engineering	15k+
Holden Karau	open source big data, Apache Spark	11k+

I am not duplicating work. Zach Wilson is hosting a list of amazing Data Engineering Creators. I added some creators to other categories ;-)

Data Architecture

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Joe Reis	a lot about fundamentals in data engineering and a lot about data architecture	85k+

Data Science & AI

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Andrew Ng	AI education, machine learning leadership	2.1M+
Yann LeCun	deep learning pioneer, Meta AI Chief Scientist	1M+
Gina Acosta Gutiérrez	about data science and data engineering hands-on	201k+
Armand Ruiz	a lot about AI engineering and AI trends & news	184k+
Andreas Horn	how AI is influencing us and business	176k+
Conor Grennan	get ready for Gen AI and create value out of it	138k+
Ken Jee	data science career development	124k+
Fei-Fei Li	AI research, computer vision, AI ethics	63k

Data Governance

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Charlotte Ledoux	data strategy, data & AI governance, data culture	40k+	daily, 7:15 UTC
Nicola Askham	data governance coaching and implementation	21k+
Ole Olesen-Bagneux	meta data management, enterprise data management	15k+
Elizabeth Fernandes	data ethic, data governance, data literacy	12k+

Data Visualization

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic	storytelling with data, data visualization best practices	31k+
Mico Yuk	BI dashboard design, data storytelling	21k+
Alberto Cairo	information visualization, visual journalism	12k+
Nadieh Bremer	creative data visualization, artistic data representation	13k+

Data Ethics & Privacy

Name +	Topics	Followers	Posting time
Tristan Harris	ethical technology design, digital well-being	50k+
Rumman Chowdhury	responsible AI, algorithmic ethics	31k+
Virginia Dignum	ethical AI, AI governance frameworks	17k+
Renée Cummings	AI ethics, data justice, algorithmic bias	15k+

Disclaimer

I know and I assume that there are much more amazing data leaders which have less than 10k followers on LinkedIn or are not active on LinkedIn. Data Leaders with more than 10k followers typically post regularly and have a significant impact on the data community.