KDnuggets Top Bloggers in September – Gold and Silver badges

KDnuggets aims to bring to our 350,000 monthly readers the most interesting and relevant stories from the world of Big Data and Data Science. We usually publish over 100 stories a month and writing a very popular blog which beats such competition is non-trivial.

You can see the most popular posts weekly and monthly at www.kdnuggets.com/news/top-stories.html.

We recognize our best blogs last month with these badges

• KDnuggets Gold Blog for September 2016, awarded to the most popular (by views) or most shared blog, weekly or monthly.
   
   
   
  
• KDnuggets Silver Blog for September 2016, awarded to the 2nd most popular (by views) or 2nd most shared blog weekly, or 2nd / 3rd / 4th place monthly.

If a blog wins a badge for more than one week, we only mention it the first time.

Here are the winners.

For the week of Aug 29 - Sep 4, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know, by James Le - most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: How to Become a Data Scientist Part 1, by Alec Smith, 2nd most viewed

For the week of Sep 5-11, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: The 10 Algorithms Machine Learning Engineers Need to Know, by James Le - most viewed
• Gold Blog Award: A Beginner Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks Part 1, by Adit Deshpande - most shared.
• Silver Blogger Award: Big Data Dilemma: Save Me Money Versus Make Me Money, by William Schmarzo - 2nd most shared
  

For the week of Sep 12-18, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Top Algorithms and Methods Used by Data Scientists, by Gregory Piatetsky - most viewed and most shared.
• Silver Blog Award: 7 Steps to Mastering Apache Spark 2.0, by Jules S. Damji & Sameer Farooqui

For the week of Sep 18-24, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: 9 Key Deep Learning Papers, Explained, by Adit Deshpande - most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Learning From Data (Introductory Machine Learning) Caltech course starts on edX Sep 18, by Yaser Abu-Mostafa - 2nd most shared

For the week of Sep 26 - Oct 2, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Data Science for Internet of Things (IoT) : Ten Differences From Traditional Data Science, by Ajit Jaokar - most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Top Data Scientist Claudia Perlich on Biggest Issues in Data Science, by Claudia Perlich - 2nd most shared

Finally, for the month of September 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Top Algorithms and Methods Used by Data Scientists, by Gregory Piatetsky - most viewed and most shared.
• Silver Blog Award A Beginner's Guide To Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks Part 1, by Adit Deshpande, 2nd most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: 7 Steps to Mastering Apache Spark 2.0, by Jules S. Damji and Sameer Farooqui, 3rd most viewed and 4th most shared
• Silver Blog Award: 9 Key Deep Learning Papers, Explained, by Adit Deshpande, 4th most viewed and 3rd most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Data Science for Internet of Things (IoT) : Ten Differences From Traditional Data Science, by Ajit Jaokar - 2nd most shared