KDnuggets Top Blogs and Bloggers in January 2017

In January 2017, KDnuggets published 107 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 Jan 2017 badge, awarded to bloggers who have the most popular (by views) or most shared blog, weekly or monthly.
   
  
• KDnuggets Silver Blogger for Jan 2017 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 Jan 2-8, 2017

• Gold Blog Award: 5 Machine Learning Projects You Can No Longer Overlook, January, by Matthew Mayo - most viewed and most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Machine Learning and Cyber Security Resources, by Faizan Ahmad, 2nd most shared

For the week of Jan 9-15, 2017:

• Gold Blog Award: The Most Popular Language For Machine Learning and Data Science Is..., by Jean-Francois Puget, most viewed and most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Big Data and the Internet of Things don't make business smarter, Analytics and Data Science do, by Michael O'Connell, 2nd most shared

For the week of Jan 16-22, 2017:

• Gold Blog Award: Time Series Analysis: A Primer, by By Kevin Gray, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Deep Learning Can be Applied to Natural Language Processing, By Carlos Perez 2nd most shared

For the week of Jan 23-29, 2017:

• Gold Blog Award: 6 areas of AI and Machine Learning to watch closely, by Nathan Benaich, most shared
• Silver Blog Award: Pandas Cheat Sheet: Data Science and Data Wrangling in Python, by Karlijn Willems, 2nd most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: Chatbots on Steroids: 10 Key Machine Learning Capabilities to Fuel Your Chatbot, by Alon Mei-raz, 2nd most shared

For the week of Jan 30-Feb 5:

• Gold Blog Award: Deep Learning Research Review: Natural Language Processing, by Adit Deshpande, most shared and 2nd most viewed
• Silver Blog Award: Data Scientist - best job in America, again, by Gregory Piatetsky, 2nd most shared

Finally, for the month of January 2017:

• Gold Blog Award: The Most Popular Language For Machine Learning and Data Science Is..., by Jean-Francois Puget, most viewed and most shared