Top LinkedIn Groups for Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science

Interesting article recently posted here, where the DSC top LinkedIn group is listed as #1 (it is now approaching 200,000 members).

Here are the 10 largest groups (by membership as of Mar 30, 2015), and their growth in the 12 months from Mar 30, 2014 to Mar 30, 2015.

Adv BADM: Advanced Business Analytics, Data Mining and Predictive Modeling, 174362 members, 49% growth
BI Pros: Business Intelligence Professionals, 150147 members, 21% growth
BDASFI: Big Data | Analytics | Strategy | Finance | Innovation , 128805 members, 41% growth
BD & A: Big Data and Analytics, 120776 members, 68% growth
Biz An: Business Analytics, 70326 members, 37% growth
DMSBD: Data Mining, Statistics, Big Data, and Data Visualization, 68539 members, 62% growth
SAC: Statistics & Analytics Consultants Group, 46481 members, 38% growth
BD pros: BIG DATA Professionals - Architects Scientists IOT Analytics, 45443 members, 54% growth
BDAHN: Big Data, Analytics, Hadoop, NoSQL & Cloud Computing, 33139 members, 112% growth
DW/BD/H: Data Warehouse / Big Data / Hadoop / Predictive Analytics, 32994 members, 19% growth