Here are the most popular posts in KDnuggets in January, 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. Your AI skills are worth less than you think, by Ric Szopa (*)

 

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

2. The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio, by Ed Harris (*)
3. How to go from Zero to Employment in Data Science, by Alexander Engelhardt
4. 2018's Top 7 Python Libraries for Data Science and AI, by Favio Vazquez
5. The Five Best Data Visualization Libraries, by Lio Fleishman

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

6. 7 Steps to Mastering Basic Machine Learning with Python - 2019 Edition, by Matthew Mayo
7. Ontology and Data Science, by Favio Vazquez
8. Top 10 Books on NLP and Text Analysis, by SciForce
9. End To End Guide For Machine Learning Projects, by Farhad Malik

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

1. Your AI skills are worth less than you think, by Ric Szopa

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Most Shared - Gold Badges (>600 shares)

1. 7 Steps to Mastering Basic Machine Learning with Python - 2019 Edition, by Matthew Mayo

Most Shared - Silver Badges (>300 shares)

3. The cold start problem: how to build your machine learning portfolio, by Ed Harris
4. Top 10 Books on NLP and Text Analysis, by SciForce
5. 2018's Top 7 Python Libraries for Data Science and AI, by Favio Vazquez
6. End To End Guide For Machine Learning Projects, by Farhad Malik
7. NLP Overview: Modern Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Natural Language Processing, by Matthew Mayo
8. How to build an API for a machine learning model in 5 minutes using Flask, by Tim Elfrink (*)
9. How to solve 90% of NLP problems: a step-by-step guide, by Emmanuel Ameisen,
10. What were the most significant machine learning/AI advances in 2018?, by Kai Xin Thia (*)
11. How to go from Zero to Employment in Data Science, by Alexander Engelhardt

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

Most Shareable (Viral) Blogs

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

1. Building AI to Build AI: The Project That Won the NeurIPS AutoML Challenge, by Flytxt
2. NLP Overview: Modern Deep Learning Techniques Applied to Natural Language Processing, by Matthew Mayo
3. What were the most significant machine learning/AI advances in 2018?, by Kai Xin Thia
4. 4 Myths of Big Data and 4 Ways to Improve with Deep Data, by Stephen Smith
5. Approaches to Text Summarization: An Overview, by Matthew Mayo
6. Data Science Project Flow for Startups, by Shay Palachy
7. 7 Steps to Mastering Basic Machine Learning with Python - 2019 Edition, by Matthew Mayo