In October, KDnuggets published 98 stories which attracted over 400,000 unique visitors to our website. Here are the most popular blogs, winners of Gold and Silver badges. See the most popular posts at www.kdnuggets.com/news/top-stories.html.

We recognize our best guest bloggers with these badges

• KDnuggets Gold Blogger for Oct 2016 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the most popular (by views) or most shared blog, weekly or monthly.
   
  
• KDnuggets Silver Blogger for Oct 2016 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the 2nd most popular (by views) or 2nd most shared blog weekly, or 2nd / 3rd /4th place in monthly top stories.

Here are the winners, excluding the blogs that already won in the previous months.

For the week of Oct 3-9, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Battle of the Data Science Venn Diagrams, by David Taylor, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Automated Data Science & Machine Learning: An Interview with the Auto-sklearn Team, by Matthew Mayo

For the week of Oct 10-16, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Deep Learning Key Terms, Explained, by Matthew Mayo, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks, Explained, by Alex Castrounis, 2nd most shared

For the week of Oct 17-23, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Top 10 Data Science Videos on Youtube, by Marco Nasuto, most viewed
• Gold Blog Award: 5 EBooks to Read Before Getting into A Machine Learning Career, by Matthew Mayo, most shared

For the week of Oct 24-30, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Big Data Science: Expectation vs. Reality, by Stepan Pushkarev, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Mind of a Data Scientist - Part 1, by Thomas Joseph, 2nd most shared

Finally, for the month of October 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: 5 EBooks to Read Before Getting into A Machine Learning Career, by Matthew Mayo, most viewed and most shared
• Silver Blog Award: A Beginner's Guide to Neural Networks with Python and SciKit Learn 0.18!, 4th most viewed

Other Silver monthly blogs:

• Top 10 Data Science Videos on Youtube (2nd most viewed, 4th most shared)
• Battle of the Data Science Venn Diagrams (3rd most viewed, 2nd most shared)
• Deep Learning Key Terms, Explained (3rd most shared) already received gold or silver badges in the weeks they were published.

Congratulations to all the winners!