Reddit Udacity Series

Top Udacity Data Science Courses based on Reddit Upvotes

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 conducted analyses to find the best of Udacity from the depths of Reddit. This analysis has been conducted over 1.8 million Reddit upvotes.

 

Table of Contents

Top Data Science Courses

Data Analyst
Use Python, SQL, and statistics to uncover insights, communicate critical findings, and create data-driven solutions.
1 reddit posts 79 mentions
Data Engineer
Data Engineering is the foundation for the new world of Big Data.
1 reddit posts 19 mentions
Intro to Data Science
What does a data scientist do? In this course, we will survey the main topics in data science so you can understand the skills that are needed to become a data scientist.
0 reddit posts 34 mentions
Intro to Inferential Statistics
Intro to Inferential Statistics will teach you how to test your hypotheses and begin to make predictions based on statistical results drawn from data.
0 reddit posts 21 mentions
Intro to Data Analysis
Explore a variety of datasets, posing and answering your own questions about each.
0 reddit posts 22 mentions
SQL for Data Analysis
Learn to use Structured Query Language (SQL) to extract and analyze data stored in databases.
0 reddit posts 10 mentions
Data Scientist
Build effective machine learning models, run data pipelines, build recommendation systems, and deploy solutions to the cloud with industry-aligned projects.
0 reddit posts 5 mentions
Data Analysis and Visualization
This course will introduce students to the field by covering state­-of-­the-art modeling, analysis and visualization techniques.
0 reddit posts 4 mentions
Programming for Data Science with Python
Learn the fundamental programming tools for data professionals: Python, SQL, the Terminal and Git.
0 reddit posts 5 mentions
Data Visualization
Combine data, visuals, and narrative to tell impactful stories and make data-driven decisions.
0 reddit posts 1 mentions
Spark
Master how to work with big data and build machine learning models at scale using Spark.
0 reddit posts 4 mentions

 

Our methodology

We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"

It's the result of mining Reddit posts and comments. The analysis looked at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Udacity courses on Reddit, ranking each course based on Reddit score, and showing each course with its top Reddit mentions.

Course Score is calculated with a slightly modified version of a simple popularity / age calculation.

 course_score = sum(mention_scores) / course_age

 

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