Top May Stories: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transitioning your Career to Data Science; 7 Steps to Mastering SQL for Data Science – 2019 Edition

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

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

1. A Step-by-Step Guide to Transitioning your Career to Data Science - Part 1, by Manu Jeevan
2. The Third Wave Data Scientist, by Dominik Haitz
3. The 3 Biggest Mistakes on Learning Data Science, by Favio Vazquez
4. 7 Steps to Mastering SQL for Data Science - 2019 Edition, by Matthew Mayo
5. Data Scientist - Best Job of the Year in USA, by Gregory Piatetsky (*)
6. How (not) to use Machine Learning for time series forecasting: Avoiding the pitfalls, by Vegard Flovik (*)

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

7. 2019 KDnuggets Poll: What software you used for Analytics, Data Mining, Data Science, Machine Learning projects in the past 12 months?, by Gregory Piatetsky (*)
8. Mathematical programming - Key Habit to Build Up for Advancing Data Science, by Tirthajyoti Sarkar
9. XGBoost Algorithm: Long May She Reign, by Vishal Morde and Anurag Setty.
10. Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and Analysis, by Gregory Piatetsky

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Most Shared - Gold Badges (>600 shares)

1. 7 Steps to Mastering SQL for Data Science - 2019 Edition, by Matthew Mayo
2. Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and Analysis, by Gregory Piatetsky (*)
3. The 3 Biggest Mistakes on Learning Data Science, by Favio Vazquez
4. The Third Wave Data Scientist, by Dominik Haitz

Most Shared - Silver Badges (>300 shares)

5. How to correctly select a sample from a huge dataset in machine learning, by Gianluca Malato (*)
6. A Step-by-Step Guide to Transitioning your Career to Data Science - Part 1, by Manu Jeevan
7. How (not) to use Machine Learning for time series forecasting: Avoiding the pitfalls, by Vegard Flovik
8. The Data Fabric for Machine Learning - Part 1, by Favio Vazquez
9. Machine Learning in Agriculture: Applications and Techniques, by Sciforce
10. 60+ useful graph visualization libraries, by Elise Devaux (*)

(*) 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. How to correctly select a sample from a huge dataset in machine learning, by Gianluca Malato
2. Python leads the 11 top Data Science, Machine Learning platforms: Trends and Analysis, by Gregory Piatetsky
3. 60+ useful graph visualization libraries, by Elise Devaux
4. The Data Fabric for Machine Learning - Part 1, by Favio Vazquez
5. Machine Learning in Agriculture: Applications and Techniques, by Sciforce