Medium “Data Science” tag statistics
How busy the Data Science tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 5.1 days
Busier than 74% of 73 tracked tags
20% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 158 stories a day, Data Science is busier than 74% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (71,359 followers per daily story) is higher than 77% of tags — more readers per story than average.
58% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 20% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 42% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 8.7 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Data Science stories
| Publication | Followers | Data Science stories (last 5.1d) |
|---|---|---|
| Models to Systems | 9 | 41 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 673 | 37 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 34 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 19 |
| CodeToDeploy | 6.8K | 18 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 16 |
| Data Science Collective | 962K | 13 |
| Data Science in Your Pocket | 10K | 10 |
| The AI Brief | 177 | 8 |
| Stackademic | 88K | 8 |
Top Data Science stories right now
- Nine Ways People Lie With Statistics Without Faking a Single Number
- What A Pringle Can Teach You About The Hessian Matrix
- So, You Want To Study Mathematics?
- The Rock’s Rock Bottom
- Doomsday: The World Ends on November 13
- If It’s AI, I Have a Right to Know.
- Elon Musk: Hundreds of Millions for Republican Candidates, Nothing to Clean Up Memphis
- How apps know us better than we do and influence our decisions
- Digital Data or Material Evidence Please; The Time is Ripe to Go Beyond Verbal Testimonies on UAP!
- Could This Be the Strongest El Niño in 1,000 Years?
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Data Science tag on Medium?
- About 158 per day (1,106 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 5.1-day window before our last scan. The tag has 310,277 stories in total.
- Is the Data Science tag competitive?
- Competition is high: it is busier than 74% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 71,359 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Data Science?
- 20% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 58% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.