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r/datascience

2.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.3K upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.8Mmembers
1.3Kbest post
311most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 28% 23%
Text 45% Question 28% Link 23% Image 2% Video 1% Gallery 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 124 ML 26 Career | US 20 Projects 18 Tools 17 AI 15 Analysis 15 Education 11 Statistics 6 Career | Europe 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Me pacing in front of my screen while my model is training

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 20 image 2026

After 5 years in data science, I’m starting to realize most β€œinsights” we deliver are completely ignored. Is this normal?

↑ 728 πŸ’¬ 167 question 2026

An easy process to make sure your executive team understands the data

↑ 583 πŸ’¬ 34 text 2026

How widely is R still used in industry today?

↑ 446 πŸ’¬ 311 question 2026

Ghosting a candidate after a physical onsite is honestly extremely disrespectful

↑ 396 πŸ’¬ 85 text 2026

Why is it that stakeholders expect ML models to have 0% error rate?

↑ 383 πŸ’¬ 111 question 2026

Are all data science jobs just Gen AI now?

↑ 344 πŸ’¬ 135 question 2026

Weaponized phrases in Data science Teams

↑ 322 πŸ’¬ 71 text 2026

Easiest Python question got me rejected from FAANG

↑ 293 πŸ’¬ 188 text 2026

Laid off after 4.5 yrs at the company as Sr Data scientist. How is the job market ?

↑ 289 πŸ’¬ 106 question 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/datascience, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.