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luckystartup on March 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google is acquiring Kaggle

> Kaggle, which has about half a million data scientists on its platform, ...

Are there really that many data scientists? I thought it was a niche specialty. Is there enough work for that many people?

rcar on March 8, 2017 | [–]

Think they maybe put a 0 in the wrong spot. Kaggle's leaderboard only shows ~50k: https://www.kaggle.com/rankings

codezero on March 8, 2017 | | [–]

I think they mean unique users.

govg on March 8, 2017 | [–]

A lot of them are academics who participate out of interest, and I'm sure a significant amount are regular software engineers trying to get their hands dirty with ML.

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