r/data is a subreddit with 54k 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
: "Dataset recommendations for AI project"
5 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "[Request] Nuclear power water consumption data set along with (and/or) a comparable dataset regarding data center water consumption"
2 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Collibra - does it haver payoff or is it an endless uphill battle?"
1 post
#4
Ideas
: "I got frustrated endlessly searching for material specs, so I built an open database for us."
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "Price of purchasing a database of 1000 businesses in US without website."
1 post
Popular Topics in r/data
#1
Data
: "Curious ! Is there actually a market for scraped Datasets? What’s the scene like?"
44 posts
#2
Dataset
: "DATADOC is a local-first Dataset engineering engine that turns messy tabular data preparation into reproducible, leakage-safe, auditable pipelines."
10 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
Apache Iceberg
: "Apache Iceberg Table Cleanup: A Production Guide"
4 posts
#8
List
3 posts
#9
Company
2 posts
#10
Data Team
: "Data Team Maturity Stages"
2 posts
Flair Used in r/data
#1
DATASET
: "Chrome UX Report Dump: August 2026 data added"
6 posts
#2
LEARNING
: "Is the data catalog finally dead?"
5 posts
#3
REQUEST
: "[Request] Nuclear power water consumption data set along with (and/or) a comparable dataset regarding data center water consumption"
4 posts
#4
QUESTION
: "best away to identify spikes"
4 posts
#5
NEWS
: "the empower app surely will get alot of data..."
2 posts
#6
META
: "Data Governance by obscurity"
1 post
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+7k members(14.2%)
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Last updated: October 24, 2026