Julia Silge

I’m an international keynote speaker and real-world practitioner focused on data analysis and machine learning. I love making beautiful charts, the statistical programming language R, and Jane Austen.

Salt Lake City, UT Joined on Jul 18, 2017 https://juliasilge.com/

Work

Data scientist & software engineer at RStudio PBC

R, SQL, Markdown, GitHub

Text mining and NLP

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Julia Silge

Dec 18 '21

Topic modeling for Spice Girls lyrics 🇬🇧👯‍♀️🎤

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Julia Silge

Nov 28 '21

Predicting viewership for Doctor Who episodes

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Nov 9 '21

Predict giant pumpkin weights 🎃 with tidymodels

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6 min read

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Nov 12 '21

Spatial resampling for the #30DayMapChallenge 🗺

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Sep 30 '21

Multiclass predictive modeling for economics research papers 📑

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6 min read

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Sep 16 '21

Dimensionality reduction for Billboard Top 100 songs 🎶

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Sep 4 '21

Fit and predict with tidymodels for bird baths in Australia 🇦🇺

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Aug 26 '21

Modeling human/computer interactions on Star Trek 🖖

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Aug 23 '21

Predict housing prices 🏠 in Austin TX with xgboost

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Aug 11 '21

Use racing methods to tune xgboost models and predict home runs ⚾️

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Aug 8 '21

Tune xgboost models with early stopping to predict shelter animal status 🐱🐶

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Jul 14 '21

Predict which Scooby Doo monsters 👻 are REAL with a tuned decision tree model

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Jul 2 '21

Create a custom metric for your machine learning model to predict NYC Airbnb prices

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Julia Silge

Jul 1 '21

Class imbalance and classification metrics with aircraft wildlife strikes ✈️

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May 29 '21

Partial dependence plots for Mario Kart 🍄 world records

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May 7 '21

Predict water availability 🚰 in Sierra Leone with random forests

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May 1 '21

Estimate change in CEO departures with bootstrap resampling

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May 1 '21

Which Netflix titles are movies and which are TV shows? 📺

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Apr 22 '21

Use subword features to find which post offices are in Hawaii 🌺

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Apr 15 '21

Dimensionality reduction of United Nations voting patterns 🌍

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4 min read

Julia Silge

Apr 15 '21

Bootstrap confidence intervals for Super Bowl commercials 🏈

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4 min read

Julia Silge

Feb 21 '21

Understand inequality in student debt 🎓 with linear modeling

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Feb 21 '21

Learn tidytext with my new learnr course

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Jan 16 '21

Explore art over time in the Tate collection 🖼

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Dec 4 '20

Code generation for tuning random forests using IKEA furniture prices 🛋

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5 min read

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Oct 29 '20

Tune and interpret decision trees for wind turbine capacity 🌬

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Oct 16 '20

Predicting class membership for the Datasaurus Dozen 🦖

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Oct 7 '20

Modeling NCAA women's 🏀 tournament seeds

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Sep 25 '20

Introducing our new book, Tidy Modeling with R 📖

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Sep 23 '20

Handle class imbalance in modeling Himalayan climbing expeditions ⛰

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Sep 2 '20

Modeling crop yields 🌽🍚🌾 with tidy data principles

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Aug 14 '20

Build a predictive text model for The Last Airbender

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Aug 1 '20

Get started with tidymodels and the Palmer penguins 🐧

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6 min read

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Jul 24 '20

Announcing our new book 📖! Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R

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Jul 15 '20

Predicting astronaut mission duration 👩‍🚀🚀 with bootstrap aggregation

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7 min read

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Jul 1 '20

The Bechdel test and the X-Mansion with bootstrap resampling 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️

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Julia Silge

Jun 18 '20

Impute missing data for historical trans-Atlantic slave voyages

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8 min read

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May 27 '20

PCA and UMAP with cocktail recipes 🥃🍸🍹

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May 27 '20

Learn about log odds and empirical Bayes with cocktail 🍸 recipes

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May 22 '20

Tune XGBoost with beach volleyball data 🏐

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May 18 '20

Learn supervised machine learning with my free interactive course

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May 13 '20

Multinomial classification for volcano eruptions 🌋 with tidymodels

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May 6 '20

Building a sentiment analysis model with Animal Crossing user reviews

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8 min read

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Jul 17 '20

Predicting fines for GDPR violations with tidymodels

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May 15 '20

Principal component analysis and the best hip hop songs ever

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May 1 '20

Bootstrap resampling with #TidyTuesday beer production data

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Apr 30 '20

Tuning random forest hyperparameters in R with #TidyTuesday trees data

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Jun 29 '20

Lasso regression for IMDB ratings of The Office

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9 min read

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May 4 '20

Practice handling dates in R with lubridate... THEATRICALLY

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