Top September Stories: Essential Math for Data Science: Why and How; Machine Learning Cheat Sheets

Here are the most popular posts in KDnuggets in September, based on the number of unique page views (UPV), and social share counts from Facebook, Twitter, and Addthis.

Most Viewed - Platinum Badges (>24,000 UPV)

1. Essential Math for Data Science: 'Why' and 'How', by Tirthajyoti Sarkar(*)

 

Most Viewed - Gold Badges (>12,000 UPV)

2. Machine Learning Cheat Sheets, by Matthew Mayo
3. Journey to Machine Learning - 100 Days of ML Code, by Avik Jain

Most Viewed - Silver Badges (> 6,000 UPV)

4. How many data scientists are there and is there a shortage?, by Gregory Piatetsky
5. Neural Networks and Deep Learning: A Textbook, by Charu Aggarwal
6. 5 Resources to Inspire Your Next Data Science Project, by Conor Dewey
7. Hadoop for Beginners, by Aafreen Dabhoiwala
8. 6 Steps To Write Any Machine Learning Algorithm From Scratch: Perceptron Case Study, by John Sullivan
9. Deep Learning for NLP: An Overview of Recent Trends, by Elvis Saravia (*)
10. Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with TensorFlow, by Brian Zhang (*)

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Most Shared - Platinum Badges (>1,200 shares)

1. Machine Learning Cheat Sheets, by Matthew Mayo (*)

 

Most Shared - Gold Badges (>600 shares)

2. Essential Math for Data Science: 'Why' and 'How', by Tirthajyoti Sarkar
3. Journey to Machine Learning - 100 Days of ML Code, by Avik Jain
4. You Aren't So Smart: Cognitive Biases are Making Sure of It, by Matthew Mayo
5. Neural Networks and Deep Learning: A Textbook, by Charu Aggarwal (*)

Most Shared - Silver Badges (>300 shares)

6. 6 Steps To Write Any Machine Learning Algorithm From Scratch: Perceptron Case Study, by John Sullivan
7. Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with TensorFlow, by Brian Zhang
8. Deep Learning for NLP: An Overview of Recent Trends, by Elvis Saravia
9. How many data scientists are there and is there a shortage?, by Gregory Piatetsky
10. A Winning Game Plan For Building Your Data Science Team, by William Schmarzo (*)
11. Data Science Cheat Sheet, by Matthew Mayo (*)

(*) indicates that badge added or upgraded based on these monthly results.

Most Shareable (Viral) Blogs

Among the top blogs, here are the 5 blogs with the highest ratio of shares/unique views, which suggests that people who read it really liked it.

1. You Aren't So Smart: Cognitive Biases are Making Sure of It, by Matthew Mayo
2. A Winning Game Plan For Building Your Data Science Team, by William Schmarzo
3. What on earth is data science?, by Cassie Kozyrkov
4. Everything You Need to Know About AutoML and Neural Architecture Search, by George Seif
5. The Data Science of "Someone Like You" or Sentiment Analysis of Adele's Songs, by Preetish Panda