r/data is a subreddit with 53k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice 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
Solution Requests
: "What and how to actually prevent data breaches in real environments?"
10 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "I spent years doing manual data prep at EY. Got tired of it. Built something. Would love honest feedback from people who live this problem."
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"
2 posts
#4
Pain & Anger
: "Why does cleaning your data still require a developer?"
1 post
#5
Opportunities
: "Career Opportunities in Data Analysis, Data Science & AI"
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
: "Junior analyst here, I've been testing augmented analytics tools for a class project. My honest take after 3 weeks (disclosure inside)"
20 posts
#2
DATASET
: "I built a free, open food dataset: ~9,800 foods with names localized across 32 languages (ODbL)"
12 posts
#3
LEARNING
: "How business process automation is quietly reshaping data pipelines"
10 posts
#4
NEWS
: "USA missile stockpile before Iran war and estimated number of missiles used"
8 posts
#5
DATAVIZ
: "Visualizing my Apple Music listening history using OHLC Candlestick charts and Sankey diagrams."
2 posts
#6
REQUEST
: "Social media data"
2 posts
#7
META
: "US Divorces per 1,000 people [1867-2023]"
1 post
Member Growth in r/data
Yearly
+7k members(15.9%)
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Last updated: August 9, 2026