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Facebook's data-team lead; co-founder of Cloudera
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Jeff Hammerbacher grew up in Fort Wayne, where his father worked at the General Motors plant and his mother was a nurse. He studied mathematics at Harvard, joined Facebook in April 2006, and built and led its data team — the group whose work popularized "data scientist" as a job title. In 2008 he left to co-found Cloudera, the big-data software company, serving as its chief scientist; he co-edited Beautiful Data (O'Reilly, 2009), an early handbook of the field, and later joined the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His birthplace is not stated in the published profiles of him, and this entry does not claim one: the Fort Wayne tie is his upbringing.
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Sources: Academic Influence (profile of Hammerbacher); Businessweek-derived biographical profile.