How I Got 100,000 Views on Medium in 1 Month (ish)

and how you can too. A data scientist’s guide for obtaining this landmark achievement.

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash [1].

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. First Article Submission
3. Characteristics
4. Audience and Brand
5. Summary
6. References

Introduction

The goal of this article is to give you specific steps on reaching your first 100k views. You will learn:

• how to start writing/getting your first submission acceptance
• top characteristics of a successful article
• building your brand and audience

I will let you know a little bit about my story. After being an avid follower of Shelby Church on YouTube, I came across her video on writing for Medium. To be honest, I did not know what Medium was, but I did know what Towards Data Science was, which I used nearly every week as those articles provided accurate and insightful studying material for data science and programming. Little did I know that Towards Data Science was a publication on Medium. I knew I had to write my first article after getting some inspiring motivation, already…