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
: "Managing/ Dealing with Junior Data Scientists?"
26 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Bombed a Data Scientist Interview!"
14 posts
#3
Opportunities
: "Almost 15 years since the article “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century". How come we still don’t have a standardized interview process?"
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I've just open-sourced MessyData, a synthetic dirty data generator. It lets you programmatically generate data with anomalies and data quality issues."
2 posts
#5
News
: "CompTIA: Tech Employment Increased by 60,000 Last Month, and the Hiring Signals Are Interesting"
2 posts
#6
Solution Requests
: "Picking an experimentation platform: a retrospective"
1 post
#7
Ideas
: "Ideas on a Forecasting Problem"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/datascience
#1
Struggling
23 posts
#2
Data
: "Managing/ Dealing with Junior Data Scientists?"
21 posts
#3
Data Science
: "Are all Data Science jobs just Gen AI now?"
14 posts
#4
Job
9 posts
#5
Tired
9 posts
#6
Struggling With
6 posts
#7
Hate
5 posts
#8
Looking For
3 posts
#9
Tools
2 posts
#10
Math
2 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
: "Warning: Don't get GPT-brained"
107 posts
#2
Career | US
: "A decade of being an average Data Scientist! My personal experience."
32 posts
#3
ML
: "HoW DO I gEt a jOB I toOk a cOUrSe in MachINE LEArnING"
11 posts
#4
Analysis
: "Built a dashboard to analyze how AI skills are showing up in data science job postings (open source)"
10 posts
#5
Projects
: "Postcode/ZIP code is my modelling gold"
8 posts
#6
Tools
: "Databricks for data science?"
8 posts
#7
Education
: "Toto-2.0: Time Series Multivariate Forecasting Finally Scales Like LLMs"
5 posts
#8
Career | Europe
: "I've interviewed with 100+ companies during my career. Here are some high-level notes on DS/ML job hunting"
3 posts
#9
Challenges
: "Is working as a data scientist (ML focus) but not getting to interact with the business a common tradeoff, or is my company just weird?"
3 posts
#10
Coding
: "Easiest Python question got me rejected from FAANG"
2 posts
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Last updated: July 15, 2026