r/data is a subreddit with 53k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses data, dataset, looking for, data set, and looking for a.
## A subreddit to discuss and share data and datasets. If you have questions on anything data related or have interesting datasets, tutorials or findings please do post and make yourself at home
Popular Themes in r/data
#1
Advice Requests
: "Where to get interesting data/dataset for free?"
11 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "What and how to actually prevent data breaches in real environments?"
9 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I've been building a SQL learning platform for the past few months. It's called QueryCase and I'd love honest feedback"
3 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "Looking for better opportunity"
2 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "Why does cleaning your data still require a developer?"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/data
#1
Data
: "The biggest improvement in my Data Science journey came from working with messy Data."
24 posts
#2
Dataset
8 posts
#3
Looking For
4 posts
#4
Data Set
4 posts
#5
Looking For A
4 posts
#6
Looking For A Dataset
4 posts
#7
Ai
: "Career Opportunities in Data Analysis, Data Science & Ai"
4 posts
#8
Data Analytics
: "The 4 Pillars of Data Analytics (And the questions they answer)"
4 posts
#9
List
3 posts
#10
Data Science
: "Career Opportunities in Data Analysis, Data Science & AI"
3 posts
Flair Used in r/data
#1
QUESTION
: "Where to get interesting data/dataset for free?"
25 posts
#2
DATASET
: "I built a web scraper that extracts detailed data from Google Maps to find local businesses missing a website."
15 posts
#3
LEARNING
: "How business process automation is quietly reshaping data pipelines"
12 posts
#4
NEWS
: "USA missile stockpile before Iran war and estimated number of missiles used"
5 posts
#5
DATAVIZ
: "Visualizing my Apple Music listening history using OHLC Candlestick charts and Sankey diagrams."
2 posts
#6
REQUEST
: "Creating real time grant funding system"
2 posts
#7
META
: "US Divorces per 1,000 people [1867-2023]"
1 post
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+7k members(15.8%)
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Last updated: August 25, 2026