Just a few days ago, one of the best known persons in data science, Monica Rogati from LinkedIn, shared some insights on first names. Those findings will probably not shape any naming decisions by parents, but neither Monica nor the Guardian looked at data scientists as their only source of information. Assuming that everyone who takes part at the Strata Conf is somewhat attached to DATA,  there are some interesting findings:

DATA SCIENTISTS fall in-between SALES and ENGINEERING

at least NAME-length-wise…..

Graph taken from LinkedIn and adapted for Data Science

3 links on data science and first names: guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/…blog.linkedin.com/2011/04/27/top… arxiv.org/abs/1302.4412 #strataconf

— Monica Rogati (@mrogati) February 19, 2013

Wanna test it yourself?

Or do you wanna see, whether Microsoft employees have longer names then Cloudera employees? Please see here for the hack to grab the names from the STRATA attendees listing.