Medium “Machine Learning” tag statistics
How busy the Machine Learning tag is, how stories perform there and where they get published. Competition is very high, and the tag is mixed for new writers.
Updated Oct 20, 2026 · based on 800 stories from the last 4.8 days
Busier than 75% of 73 tracked tags
32% of top stories are by writers with <100 followers
Competition and chances for new writers
With roughly 166 stories a day, Machine Learning is busier than 75% of the 73 tags we track. Its reader-to-story ratio (43,839 followers per daily story) is higher than 53% of tags — more readers per story than average.
65% of stories here come from writers with fewer than 100 followers, and they account for 32% of the best-performing quarter of stories. 38% of stories are behind the paywall (Partner Program), and the average story takes 8.5 minutes to read.
Publications that publish Machine Learning stories
| Publication | Followers | Machine Learning stories (last 4.8d) |
|---|---|---|
| Models to Systems | 9 | 39 |
| Towards AI | 151K | 39 |
| Level Up Coding | 367K | 17 |
| Data Science in Your Pocket | 10K | 12 |
| Engineering Under Pressure | 668 | 12 |
| Data Science Collective | 961K | 10 |
| Python in Plain English | 100K | 9 |
| Python to Intelligence | 4 | 8 |
| AI Engineering Simplified | 1K | 7 |
| ILLUMINATION | 327K | 7 |
Top Machine Learning stories right now
- What A Pringle Can Teach You About The Hessian Matrix
- The Rock’s Rock Bottom
- Terence Tao’s “Math 2.0” Controversy: When AI Passes the Test but Misses the Point
- Neural networks demonstrate autonomous learning mechanisms
- The Math Trick That Turns an Infinite Decimal Into a Fraction
- Agentic coding broke the iron triangle for tech leads in 5 different ways.
- Researchers Looked Inside a Running AI Model. What They Found Was Stranger Than Anyone Expected.
- Route First, Retrieve Second
- AI Has Started Doing Mathematics Faster Than Mathematicians Can Check It
- Counting the Goals That Didn’t Count: A Real Madrid VAR Study
FAQ
- How many stories are published in the Machine Learning tag on Medium?
- About 166 per day (1,164 per week), based on 800 stories published in the 4.8-day window before our last scan. The tag has 333,098 stories in total.
- Is the Machine Learning tag competitive?
- Competition is very high: it is busier than 75% of the 73 tags we track. There are about 43,839 tag followers per new daily story.
- Can new writers succeed in Machine Learning?
- 32% of the top-performing stories (top 25% by claps) came from writers with fewer than 100 followers, so the tag is mixed for newcomers. 65% of all stories in the tag come from such writers.