[luckystartup]

> 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]

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

[codezero]

I think they mean unique users.

[govg]

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.