The most-mentioned books on r/MachineLearning

May 8, 2024

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top.

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users.

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit.

Table of Contents

The most-mentioned books on r/MachineLearning
Our methodology
Who are we

The most-mentioned books on r/MachineLearning

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning	25 users
Machine Learning	15 users
Programming Collective Intelligence	15 users
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow	12 users
All of Statistics	11 users
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow	11 users
Elements of Statistical Learning Data Mining, Inference, and Predic...	7 users
Data Mining	5 users
Superintelligence	5 users
The Book of Why	5 users
Probability Theory The Logic Of Science	5 users
Weapons of Math Destruction	5 users
Understanding Machine Learning	5 users
Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition	4 users
Foundations of Machine Learning	4 users
Deep Learning	4 users
The Master Algorithm	4 users
Introduction to Linear Algebra	4 users
Advances In Financial Machine Learning	4 users
Machine Learning	4 users
Machine Learning for Hackers	4 users
Data Science from Scratch	4 users
Decentralized Applications	4 users
Learning from Data	4 users
Artificial Intelligence	3 users
Introduction to Machine Learning	3 users
Probabilistic Graphical Models	3 users
Reinforcement Learning	3 users
Coding the Matrix	3 users
Principles of Neural Science	3 users
Data Smart	3 users
An Introduction to Statistical Learning	3 users
Python Machine Learning	3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

Who are we

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