Julia Silge
{{short description|American data scientist and software engineer}}
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Julia Silge (born June 10, 1978) is an American data scientist and software engineer. She has developed tools for statistical modelling in the R programming language,{{Cite web |title=About RStudio |url=https://rstudio.com/about/ |access-date=2020-11-02 |website=RStudio |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210220080117/https://rstudio.com/about/ |archive-date=2021-02-20}}{{cite web |title=Stack Overflow profile of Julia Silge |url=https://stackoverflow.com/story/juliasilge |access-date=2021-03-03 |publisher=Stack Overflow }}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} including the text mining package tidytext.{{Cite news |url=https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/rs-tidytext-turns-messy-text-into-valuable-insight |title=R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight |last=Tache |first=Nicole |date=2017-07-26 |work=O'Reilly Media |access-date=2018-03-22 |language=en}} Silge currently works for Posit PBC, formerly known as RStudio PBC.
Education and career
Silge studied physics at Texas A&M University, graduating in 2000. She obtained her M.A. (2002) and PhD (2005) in astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin.{{cite web |url=https://juliasilge.com/resume/ |title=Julia Silge Resume |publisher=Julia Silge |access-date=2018-02-04 |archive-date=June 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604191317/https://juliasilge.com/resume/ |url-status=dead }} She was an adjunct professor at University of New Haven and Quinnipiac University from 2006 to 2008.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}
Silge has worked as a data scientist for several companies, most recently Stack Overflow and Posit PBC. At Stack Overflow, she researched the popularity of different programming languages{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/which-programming-languages-earn-you-most-money-use-this-calculator-to-check/|title=Which programming languages earn you the most money? Use this calculator to check. | publisher= ZDNet|access-date=2018-02-23}} and skills for technologists.{{cite web|title=These are the 10 skills to learn if you want to advance in a career in tech.|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-tech-skills-for-job-seekers-2017-3|access-date=2018-02-23|publisher=Business Insider}} She also began working on tidytext, an R package for text mining, with colleague David Robinson. Their book Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach (2017) drew on examples of text analysis ranging from Jane Austen novels,{{cite web|title=The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text|url=https://juliasilge.com/blog/life-changing-magic/|access-date=2018-02-23|publisher=Julia Silge}} popular songs,{{cite news|title=The states that Americans sing about most.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/01/the-states-that-americans-sing-about-most/|access-date=2018-02-23|newspaper=The Washington Post}} NASA metadata, and Twitter archives.{{cite news|url=https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/rs-tidytext-turns-messy-text-into-valuable-insight|title=R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight.|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 26, 2017 |access-date=2018-03-31}}
In February 2017, Silge made the news when she used a note attached to a pizza delivery to contact her senator Orrin Hatch to object to the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, after failing to reach Hatch by phone.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/06/she-had-something-to-say-about-betsy-devos-so-she-sent-her-senator-a-pizza-with-a-message/|title=She had something to say about Betsy DeVos. So she sent her senator a pizza — with a message. |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2018-02-04}}{{Cite web |title=Senator's Voicemail Was Full, So Concerned Woman Sent Pizza to Protest DeVos |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/senators-voicemail-was-full-so-concerned-woman-sent-pizza-to-protest-devos/ |last=Castrodale |first=Jelisa |date=2017-02-06 |access-date=2020-11-02 |website=Vice |language=en}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/993582128|title=Text mining with R : A tidy approach|last1=Silge|first1=Julia|last2=Robinson|first2=David|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2017|isbn= 978-0367554194|edition=First|oclc=993582128}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://smltar.com/|title= Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R| last1=Silge|first1=Julia|last2=Hvitfeldt|first2=Emil|publisher=CRC Press|year=2021|isbn=9781491981658|edition=First}}
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External links
- {{Official website|https://juliasilge.com}}
- {{Google Scholar id|lQBVIkkAAAAJ}}
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Category:American statisticians
Category:Women data scientists
Category:American data scientists
Category:Texas A&M University alumni