In November, KDnuggets published 100 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 Nov 2016 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the most popular (by views) or most shared blog, weekly or monthly.
   
  
• KDnuggets Silver Blogger for Nov 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 31 - Nov 6, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Learn Data Science for Excellence and not just for the Exams., by Prasad Pore, most shared (note: although published on Oct 31, 2016 most of its views were in November, so we treat it as November post)
• Silver Blog Award: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Neural Networks, Explained, by Alex Castrounis, 2nd most shared

For the week of Nov 7-13, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Trump, Failure of Prediction, and Lessons for Data Scientists, by Gregory Piatetsky, most viewed and most shared.
• Silver Blog Award: Top 10 Amazon Books in Data Mining, 2016 Edition, by Matthew Mayo, 2nd most shared

For the week of Nov 14-20, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: How Bayesian Inference Works, by Brandon Rohrer, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Data Science and Big Data, Explained, by Alex Castrounis, 2nd most shared

For the week of Nov 21-27, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Top 20 Python Machine Learning Open Source Projects, updated, by Prasad Pore, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Continuous improvement for IoT through AI / Continuous learning, by Ajit Jaokar, 2nd most shared

For the week of Nov 28 - Dec 4, 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Machine Learning vs Statistics, by Aatash Shah, most shared and 2nd most viewed

Finally, for the month of November 2016:

• Gold Blog Award: Trump, Failure of Prediction, and Lessons for Data Scientists, by Gregory Piatetsky, most viewed and most shared.

Silver monthly blogs:

• How Bayesian Inference Works, by Brandon Rohrer - 2nd most viewed, 3rd most shared
• Top 20 Python Machine Learning Open Source Projects, updated, by Prasad Pore - 3rd most viewed
• Top 10 Amazon Books in Data Mining, 2016 Edition, by Matthew Mayo - 4th most viewed
• Learn Data Science for Excellence and not just for the Exams, by Prasad Pore - 2nd most shared
• Machine Learning vs Statistics, by Aatash Shah, 4th most shared

already received gold or silver badges in the weeks they were published.

Congratulations to all the winners!