r/datascience is a subreddit with 2.8M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses struggling, data, data science, job, and tired, and they frequently recommend/review bi tool, framework, and etl tool.
A space for data science professionals to engage in discussions and debates on the subject of data science.
Popular Themes in r/datascience
#1
Advice Requests
: "Laid off after 4.5 yrs at the company as Sr Data scientist. How is the job market ?"
13 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Interviewing with hedge funds has been the worst experience of my career"
8 posts
#3
News
: "Inkling, a new open-weight 975B mixture-of-experts model, comes with a few surprises"
2 posts
#4
Solution Requests
: "Picking an experimentation platform: a retrospective"
1 post
#5
Money Talk
: "What are the downsides of asking for an inflation adjustment in the salary?"
1 post
#6
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source toolkit to audit robot datasets before training"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datascience
#1
Struggling
23 posts
#2
Data
: "Managing/ Dealing with Junior Data Scientists?"
22 posts
#3
Data Science
: "How do you decide whether a Data Science problem really needs machine learning?"
14 posts
#4
Job
9 posts
#5
Tired
8 posts
#6
Struggling With
6 posts
#7
Hate
5 posts
#8
Career
: "Applied to 300+ Data Analyst roles with 0 interviews. Starting to lose my mind and doubt my CV"
3 posts
#9
Looking For
3 posts
#10
Data Scientists
: "Managing/ Dealing with Junior Data Scientists?"
3 posts
Products Discussed in r/datascience
Bi Tool
25 reviews
#1
Microsoft
3.8★ from 5 reviews
#2
FineReport
5.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Tableau
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Framework
22 reviews
#1
Streamlit
4.5★ from 6 reviews
#2
Shiny
4.3★ from 4 reviews
#3
Dash
4.0★ from 4 reviews
Etl Tool
16 reviews
#1
Fivetran
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Informatica
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
dbt
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Flair Used in r/datascience
#1
Discussion
: "After 5 years in data science, I’m starting to realize most “insights” we deliver are completely ignored. Is this normal?"
74 posts
#2
Career | US
: "Laid off after 4.5 yrs at the company as Sr Data scientist. How is the job market ?"
20 posts
#3
ML
: "HoW DO I gEt a jOB I toOk a cOUrSe in MachINE LEArnING"
15 posts
#4
Analysis
: "I compared XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, random forest, LASSO, and a small neural network in a momentum stock trading strategy"
13 posts
#5
Tools
: "Databricks for data science?"
10 posts
#6
AI
: "AI Overuse Follow-up"
6 posts
#7
Projects
: "I finally finished building a tool that ID’s potential insider trading for prediction market bets"
6 posts
#8
Education
: "Toto-2.0: Time Series Multivariate Forecasting Finally Scales Like LLMs"
5 posts
#9
Career | Europe
: "I've interviewed with 100+ companies during my career. Here are some high-level notes on DS/ML job hunting"
3 posts
#10
Challenges
: "For those in corporate roles, how do you all work with the non-technical areas you support?"
3 posts
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Yearly
+75k members(2.8%)
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Last updated: August 14, 2026