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