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

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

1. Another 10 Free Must-Read Books for Machine Learning and Data Science, Matthew Mayo (*)

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

2. Who is a typical Data Scientist in 2019?, Iliya Valchanov

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

3. What no one will tell you about data science job applications, Edouard Harris
4. The Pareto Principle for Data Scientists, Pradeep Gulipalli
5. 19 Inspiring Women in AI, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Gregory Piatetsky
6. Explaining Random Forest (with Python Implementation), The Learning Machine
7. My favorite mind-blowing Machine Learning/AI breakthroughs, Jerry Chi (*)
8. R vs Python for Data Visualization, Asel Mendis

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

1. Artificial Neural Networks Optimization using Genetic Algorithm with Python, Ahmed Gad (*)
2. Another 10 Free Must-Read Books for Machine Learning and Data Science, Matthew Mayo

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Most Shared - Gold Badges (>600 shares)

3. Who is a typical Data Scientist in 2019?, Iliya Valchanov
4. R vs Python for Data Visualization, Asel Mendis

Most Shared - Silver Badges (>300 shares)

5. The Pareto Principle for Data Scientists, Pradeep Gulipalli
6. 8 Reasons Why You Should Get a Microsoft Azure Certification, Simplilearn
7. 19 Inspiring Women in AI, Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, Gregory Piatetsky
8. The Deep Learning Toolset - An Overview, Timon Ruban
9. How To Work In Data Science, AI, Big Data, Richard Freeman (*)

(*) 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. Artificial Neural Networks Optimization using Genetic Algorithm with Python, Ahmed Gad
2. 8 Reasons Why You Should Get a Microsoft Azure Certification, Simplilearn
3. Neural Networks with Numpy for Absolute Beginners - Part 2: Linear Regression, Suraj Donthi
4. Top 8 Data Science Use Cases in Manufacturing, ActiveWizards
5. R vs Python for Data Visualization, Asel Mendis