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r/Data

## 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

54k subscribers54 posts / mo in Sep 202649 authors / mosince 2008

r/data has 54k members (+14% over the last 12 months). It gets about 54 posts a month from 49 people. Top topics: Backtesting Strategies, Power BI Dashboards & Data and Data Analytics & Engineering.

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Size and growth

How r/data has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+14%in 12 months · +1.8% in 3 months · +0.5% in 1 month
Oct 202654k
Growing54k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−60%vs Sep 2025 · −9.6% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202654
QuieterPeaked at 250 in Jan 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/data

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Backtesting Strategies1.3%
  2. Power BI Dashboards & Data0.6%
  3. Data Analytics & Engineering0.5%
  4. BI and Data Analytics0.5%
  5. Google Privacy Tracking0.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Medium
  2. Substack
  3. Kaggle
  4. Snowflake AI Data Cloud

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research