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r/data

Updated Aug 25

## 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

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Tracking since Aug 25 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/data — frequently asked

How many members does r/data have?

r/data has 53,417 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 25. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/data growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/data yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 25; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/data?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/data yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

Can I promote my product in r/data?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/data yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/data for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/data into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/data's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/data's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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