Top 20 LinkedIn Creators on Data Science (2026)

What changed in the top 20 LinkedIn Data Science creators since our last ranking

The pool is smaller this time: 82 active Data Science creators, against 189 in our previous edition.

Nine names are new in this top 20. Amney Mounir enters highest, at #9, followed by Alex Freberg at #12 and Clare Kitching at #13; the six others sit between #14 and #20.

Andrew Bolis moves up from #2 to #1, and the climbs go further down the board:

• Julien Chaumond, from #17 to #3

• Zach Wilson, from #18 to #8

• Shalini Goyal, from #14 to #5

• Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani, from #19 to #10

Dawn Choo is the only returning creator to slip, from #15 to #17.

Nine creators from our previous top 20 are no longer in it.

#20 · Jeff Winter, 247 median likes per Data Science post

Jeff Winter writes about Industry 4.0 and digital transformation, and he is new in this edition. He ties Jess Ramos on 247 median likes, and the tie goes to the larger following, which leaves him twentieth.

His audience talks back: a median of 95 comments, joint fourth-highest in the top 20.

"You don’t rise to the level of your intelligence, you fall to the level of your data." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a familiar saying rewritten around data: 965 likes and 165 comments. Read it

#19 · Jess Ramos, 247 median likes per Data Science post

Jess Ramos founded Big Data Energy and specializes in B2B marketing for technical products. She is new in this edition, and with 125 Data Science posts in 12 months she ranks fifth on the total-likes table below.

Her Data Science median slid from 328 in 2025 to 247 so far in 2026. Her hooks run 20 words on average, second-longest among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for.

"Everyone thinks when they get a job in data it'll be the most sexiest job ever full of so many intellectual smart things..." Her most liked Data Science post of the year: 2,658 likes, 11 times her median. Read it

#18 · Muhammad Ayan, 251 median likes per Data Science post

Muhammad Ayan breaks down AI tools, news and workflows every day, and he enters the top 20 in this edition. Data Science is 15% of his feed, and he is one of only two creators here whose theme posts earn less than their overall median (-5%).

"I compared all 5 major AIs for one task. One delivered results 3x faster." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a five-way test scored out of 30: 898 likes and 224 comments, more than twice his median comment count. Read it

#17 · Dawn Choo, 271 median likes per Data Science post

Dawn Choo is a data scientist who worked at Meta and Amazon. She is the only returning creator in this top 20 to slip, from #15 in our previous edition.

Her Data Science median fell from 641 in 2025 to 224 so far in 2026, while her output rose: 115 posts on the theme this year, against 80 in all of 2025. The theme is 43% of her feed and still earns 54% more than her overall median.

"Me, as a Data Scientist, insisting a linear regression model works in every situation:" Her most liked Data Science post of the year, a one-line meme setup: 2,666 likes, 10 times her median. Read it

#16 · José Siles, 287 median likes per Data Science post

José Siles is a data engineer at Nestlé and a LinkedIn instructor, new in this edition. His Data Science posts earn 141% more than his overall median, the largest premium in the top 20: 287 median likes on the theme, against 119 overall.

He is a volume creator too: 141 Data Science posts, second on the total-likes table, and a 0.41% engagement rate, fourth in the efficiency table.

"Before Snowflake, learn SQL. Before Databricks, learn Python. Before dbt, learn Data Modeling." His most liked Data Science post of the year: 3,435 likes, 12 times his Data Science median and 29 times his overall one. Read it

#15 · Sohan Sethi, 294 median likes per Data Science post

Sohan Sethi is a data analytics manager at HCSC and new in this edition. He gives Data Science 60% of his feed, the highest share in the top 20, on a light schedule: 48 posts in 12 months, 29 of them on the theme.

"Give me two minutes, and I’ll show you a practical path to learn statistics for data analytics." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a hook that names the time cost before the topic: 962 likes, 3 times his median. Read it

#14 · Keith McNulty, 310 median likes per Data Science post

Keith McNulty leads talent and organizational science work and writes as a mathematician, statistician and author. He is new in this edition and the lightest poster in the top 20: 22 posts in 12 months, 13 of them on Data Science.

His audience reads more than it replies, with a median of 15 comments, the lowest here. His 0.39% engagement rate puts him fifth in the efficiency table below.

"What turns a good statistician, psychometrician or data scientist into a great one?" His most liked Data Science post of the year, a question he answers with causal inference: 1,086 likes and 17 comments. Read it

#13 · Clare Kitching, 313 median likes per Data Science post

Clare Kitching advises companies on AI and data strategy after roles at QuantumBlack and McKinsey, and she is new in this edition.

Her audience comments at a rate nobody else in the top 20 approaches: a median of 225 comments for 313 likes, the conversation record of our Data Science pool among creators with 100+ median likes.

"Every company I've worked with started by saying 'our data is a mess'. The ones that made progress didn’t fix all their data before starting. They started using it." Her most liked Data Science post of the year: 883 likes and 297 comments, one comment for every 3 likes. Read it

#12 · Alex Freberg, 326 median likes per Data Science post

Alex Freberg founded AnalystBuilder.com and runs the YouTube channel Alex The Analyst. He is new in this edition and the only creator in this top 20 whose Data Science median rose from 2025 to 2026 in our data: 274, then 307 so far.

At 439k followers his engagement rate is 0.07%, tied for second-lowest here, and his audience rarely replies (a median of 22 comments).

"I went to a hockey game yesterday and sat behind the people collecting the data for the team." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a first-person scene rather than a tutorial: 2,413 likes, 7 times his median. Read it

#11 · Bhanu Singh Yede, 327 median likes per Data Science post

Bhanu Singh Yede teaches AI and tech tools to creators and professionals, up from #13 in our previous edition. On 23k followers, the smallest account in the top 20, he posts a 1.42% engagement rate, the highest in our Data Science pool among accounts over 20k followers.

That is more than twice anyone else's. His posts also carry 7 emojis on average, the most among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for.

"Excel Mastery for Data Analytics - Complete Guide!" His most liked Data Science post of the year, an Excel resource guide: 602 likes, under twice his median. Read it

#10 · Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani, 348 median likes per Data Science post

Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani is an AI engineer and LinkedIn Learning instructor, up from #19 in our previous edition. He is the volume record of this top 20: 163 Data Science posts in 12 months, 42% of his feed, and first on the total-likes table below.

A number opens 49% of his hooks, the highest rate among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for.

"Every data professional forgets which statistical test to use. Here's the fix." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a reference to save rather than an argument: 3,857 likes, 11 times his median. Read it

#9 · Amney Mounir, 354 median likes per Data Science post

Amney Mounir works in data analytics and AI at Meta and is new in this edition. Data Science takes half of all posts on the profile (57 of 113 in 12 months), and those posts earn 26% more than its overall median.

A 0.48% engagement rate puts Amney Mounir third in the efficiency table below.

"A lot of Junior Data Analysts want it so easy! They use Claude before learning the basics." The most liked Data Science post of the year on this profile, followed by a numbered list of core skills: 1,575 likes, 4 times the median. Read it

#8 · Zach Wilson, 372 median likes per Data Science post

Zach Wilson founded DataExpert.io, which trains knowledge workers in AI, and climbs from #18 in our previous edition. On 81 Data Science posts, 22% of his feed, his Data Science median moved the least in the top 20 among creators with both years in our data: 387 in 2025, 372 so far in 2026.

His Data Science posts earn 41% more than his overall median.

"Senior data engineers at Netflix can make $500k per year. The interview process is intense though:" His most liked Data Science post of the year, which then lists the SQL topics to prepare: 1,775 likes. Read it

#7 · Brij Kishore Pandey, 394 median likes per Data Science post

Brij Kishore Pandey is an AI architect and engineer who writes a newsletter for AI builders, up from #11 in our previous edition. He is the second-biggest account in the ranking (741k followers), and his 0.05% engagement rate is the lowest of the top 20.

His Data Science median fell from 680 in 2025 to 370 so far in 2026, and the theme lands 2% under his overall median, one of only two discounts in the top 20.

"If you’re still feeding your LLMs with plain JSON, you’re leaving tokens, speed and budget on the table." His most liked Data Science post of the year, on the newly launched TOON format: 10,284 likes, the biggest best post in the top 20 and 26 times his median, the widest gap here. Read it

#6 · Andreas Horn, 402 median likes per Data Science post

Andreas Horn heads AIOps at IBM and lectures and advises on AI. He climbs from #12 in our previous edition, and his posts on the theme earn 19% more than his overall median, on 7% of his feed.

His Data Science median dropped from 445 in 2025 to 238 so far in 2026, on fewer posts.

"It's fixing your data. Everyone wants 'AI solutions.' Almost nobody wants 'data fundamentals.'" His most liked Data Science post of the year, which opens on a bold line about AI strategy before this turn: 1,839 likes and 206 comments. Read it

#5 · Shalini Goyal, 416 median likes per Data Science post

Shalini Goyal is an executive director at JP Morgan, formerly at Amazon, and teaches at Zigurat. She climbs from #14 in our previous edition, and with 48 Data Science posts, 19% of her feed, she has the highest volume of the top five.

Her Data Science median eased from 431 in 2025 to 375 so far in 2026, and her best post earned 2.4 times her median, one of the smaller gaps here.

"Indexing is one of the most important performance techniques in databases..." Her most liked Data Science post of the year, a database explainer: 1,002 likes. Read it

#4 · Ethan Mollick, 553 median likes per Data Science post

Ethan Mollick, associate professor at the Wharton School and author of Co-Intelligence, climbs from #5 in our previous edition. He is the most prolific account in the top 20, with 707 posts in 12 months, so his 26 Data Science posts are only 4% of his feed.

Those posts earn 59% more than his overall median. He writes the shortest posts among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for (62 words on average), under the longest hooks (24 words).

His Data Science median went from 400 in 2024 to 561 in 2025 and stands at 459 so far in 2026.

"Claude in Excel is really impressive." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a hands-on comparison of two Excel agents: 2,904 likes, 5 times his median. Read it

#3 · Julien Chaumond, 752 median likes per Data Science post

Julien Chaumond is the CTO of Hugging Face and the biggest climber in this top 20, from #17 to #3. He has the fewest Data Science posts in the top 20 (10, exactly our floor), 6% of his feed, and they earn 23% more than his overall median.

His audience likes far more than it replies: about 33 likes for every comment, the widest ratio here.

"We got Claude Code to train an open LLM" His most liked Data Science post of the year, a demo that ends with finished models pushed to the Hugging Face Hub: 9,578 likes, 13 times his median, the second-biggest best post in the top 20. Read it

#2 · Ruben Hassid, 825 median likes per Data Science post

Ruben Hassid, who teaches AI tools to a general audience (see his data biography), moves up from #4 to #2. He has the biggest audience in the ranking, 896k followers.

He also posts often: 534 posts in 12 months, so his 11 Data Science posts are 2% of his feed, the smallest share in the top 20. His median of 220 comments is third-highest here, and his theme posts earn 9% more than his overall median.

"People think learning AI takes months. It doesn't." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a list of 17 free guides with a link for each: 1,830 likes and 196 comments. Read it

#1 · Andrew Bolis, 1,491 median likes per Data Science post

Andrew Bolis, a former CMO who now consults on AI and marketing, moves up from #2 to the top of this ranking with 1,491 median likes per Data Science post, 20 times the typical Data Science post we measured.

He also has the highest median comment count in the top 20 (305). His 13 Data Science posts are 6% of his feed and earn 63% more than his overall median of 914, and his 0.64% engagement rate is second only to Bhanu Singh Yede's.

His best post earned only 1.3 times his median, the smallest gap here: his rank rests on consistency, not on one hit. He also writes the longest posts among the top-20 creators we hold writing data for (382 words on average).

"You can now learn AI without spending money. All you need is YouTube and the right teachers." His most liked Data Science post of the year, a numbered list of 20 channels: 2,000 likes and 318 comments. Read it

Where do these cards come from? We computed every figure on this page from public posts with MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, premiums and trajectories, across 82 Data Science creators and 7,137 Data Science posts. Run it on your own profile, side by side with anyone on this list.

Which Data Science creators just missed the top 20?

Five names sit right behind the cut, all within 18 likes of number twenty:

Paul Iusztin, at #24, published 334 posts in 12 months, so his 13 Data Science posts are only 4% of his feed, yet they earn 172% more than his overall median, a larger premium than anyone in the top 20.

Karina Samsonova, at #23, is the opposite profile: 57% of her feed, on 128 Data Science posts. Arsh Goyal, at #21, misses the cut by 3 likes.

Which LinkedIn Data Science creators have the highest engagement rate?

Raw likes flatter the largest followings, so divide by reach: engagement rate on Data Science posts, median likes divided by followers (20k followers and over). The order changes almost completely:

All five also sit in the top 20: Bhanu Singh Yede (#11), Andrew Bolis (#1), Amney Mounir (#9), José Siles (#16) and Keith McNulty (#14). None has more than 232k followers.

Every top-20 account clears the 20k floor of this table, so no smaller account sits outside it. The top 20 itself runs from Bhanu Singh Yede's 1.42% down to Brij Kishore Pandey's 0.05%. For how Data Science compares with other subjects, see our study of LinkedIn engagement rate by topic.

Which Data Science creators get the most total likes on LinkedIn?

One more cut counts the total likes on Data Science posts over 12 months, where frequent posters gain ground:

Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani leads on 163 posts. José Siles needs 141 to land second, and Abhisek Sahu, outside the top 20, takes third on 237 posts, the most of anyone in the table. Brij Kishore Pandey reaches sixth on just 46.

Six of the eight come from the top 20, plus Abhisek Sahu and Karina Samsonova (#23). Andrew Bolis, our number one, is absent, on 13 posts.

Which LinkedIn Data Science creator gets the most comments per post?

This cut divides comments by likes. Among creators with 100+ median likes, the record in our Data Science pool belongs to Clare Kitching (#13): 225 median comments against 313 median likes, close to three comments for every four likes.

Matt Village and Adam Biddlecombe, both behind Mindstream, which Adam Biddlecombe's headline says was sold to HubSpot, complete the podium, each with more than one comment for every two likes. The typical top-20 creator gets one comment for every 7 likes.

Are the top LinkedIn Data Science creators full-time Data Science voices?

A few are. Of the 82 creators who post about Data Science consistently, 8 give it at least half their feed. Three of them make this top 20: Sohan Sethi (60%), Keith McNulty (59%) and Amney Mounir (50%).

At the other end sit Ruben Hassid (2%), Ethan Mollick (4%), Andrew Bolis and Julien Chaumond (6% each). The four highest medians in the ranking all come from creators who give the theme 6% of their feed or less.

Focus does not decide the premium. Ethan Mollick earns +59% on a 4% share and Andrew Bolis +63% on 6%, while Keith McNulty earns +44% on 59% and José Siles the record +141% on 36%.

In all, 18 of the 20 earn more on Data Science than on their other posts. Only Brij Kishore Pandey (-2%) and Muhammad Ayan (-5%) take a discount.

The top 20 is mostly American: 12 creators are based in the United States and 2 in the United Kingdom, with one each in Israel, Germany, India, Australia, Spain and Pakistan.

Country by country rankings: the United States, the UK, Germany, India, Australia, Spain, Pakistan, the full series.

For the neighboring themes, see our ranking of the top LinkedIn AI creators and the top LinkedIn software development creators. And if showing up in these creators' comment sections is part of your plan, an engagement feed keeps it to a five-minute daily habit.

How we ranked the top LinkedIn Data Science creators

All of this is MagicPost's own research. We went through 7,137 Data Science posts from the last 12 months and ranked 82 creators by median likes on their Data Science posts.

Only creators with at least one post in the last 60 days are ranked. The method:

• Floors: at least 5,000 followers and 10 Data Science posts in the window; deleted posts excluded.

• Median rather than average: no single viral post can buy a place.

• Data Science posts only: our own classifier tags each post's theme, and only Data Science posts count.

• Data Science posts analyzed: the posts our dataset holds per creator, sometimes fewer than they published.

• Per creator: share of feed, premium over their own median, yearly trajectories, engagement rate and comment ratio.

Eleven of the twenty medians rest on 10 to 29 Data Science posts, and with 82 creators in the pool, this top 20 covers about a quarter of it. Rankings refresh as the data does. No placement here was sponsored; every rank comes straight from the median.

Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any Data Science creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, trajectory) and benchmark your own profile against the pool. The data on this page is the product.