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Julia Silge
Silge speaks in 2017
Born (1978-06-10) June 10, 1978 (age 46)
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Websitejuliasilge.com

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,[1][2] including the text mining package tidytext.[3] Silge currently works for Posit PBC, formerly known as RStudio PBC.[1]

Education and career

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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.[2][4] She was an adjunct professor at University of New Haven and Quinnipiac University from 2006 to 2008.[citation needed]

Silge has worked as a data scientist for several companies, most recently Stack Overflow and Posit PBC.[1][2] At Stack Overflow, she researched the popularity of different programming languages[5] and skills for technologists.[6] 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,[7] popular songs,[8] NASA metadata, and Twitter archives.[9]

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.[10][11]

Selected publications

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  • Silge, Julia; Robinson, David (2017). Text mining with R : A tidy approach (First ed.). O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0367554194. OCLC 993582128.
  • Silge, Julia; Hvitfeldt, Emil (2021). Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R (First ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781491981658.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "About RStudio". RStudio. Archived from the original on February 20, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Stack Overflow profile of Julia Silge". Stack Overflow. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  3. ^ Tache, Nicole (July 26, 2017). "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  4. ^ "Julia Silge Resume". Julia Silge. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Which programming languages earn you the most money? Use this calculator to check". ZDNet. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  6. ^ "These are the 10 skills to learn if you want to advance in a career in tech". Business Insider. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  7. ^ "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text". Julia Silge. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  8. ^ "The states that Americans sing about most". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 23, 2018.
  9. ^ "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight". The Washington Post. July 26, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
  10. ^ "She had something to say about Betsy DeVos. So she sent her senator a pizza — with a message". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
  11. ^ Castrodale, Jelisa (February 6, 2017). "Senator's Voicemail Was Full, So Concerned Woman Sent Pizza to Protest DeVos". Vice. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
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