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