Biography:Julia Silge
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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,[1][2] including the text mining package tidytext.[3] Silge currently works for Posit, formerly known as RStudio.[1]
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.[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 RStudio.[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
- Silge, Julia; Robinson, David (2017). Text mining with R : A tidy approach (First ed.). O'Reilly. ISBN 978-0367554194. OCLC 993582128. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/993582128.
- Silge, Julia; Hvitfeldt, Emil (2021). Supervised Machine Learning for Text Analysis in R (First ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 9781491981658. https://smltar.com/.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About RStudio" (in en). https://rstudio.com/about/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Stack Overflow profile of Julia Silge". Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/story/juliasilge.
- ↑ Tache, Nicole (2017-07-26). "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight" (in en). O'Reilly Media. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/rs-tidytext-turns-messy-text-into-valuable-insight.
- ↑ "Julia Silge Resume". Julia Silge. https://juliasilge.com/resume/.
- ↑ "Which programming languages earn you the most money? Use this calculator to check.". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/which-programming-languages-earn-you-most-money-use-this-calculator-to-check/.
- ↑ "These are the 10 skills to learn if you want to advance in a career in tech.". Business Insider. http://www.businessinsider.com/fastest-growing-tech-skills-for-job-seekers-2017-3.
- ↑ "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text". Julia Silge. https://juliasilge.com/blog/life-changing-magic/.
- ↑ "The states that Americans sing about most.". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/01/the-states-that-americans-sing-about-most/.
- ↑ "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight.". The Washington Post. July 26, 2017. https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/rs-tidytext-turns-messy-text-into-valuable-insight.
- ↑ "She had something to say about Betsy DeVos. So she sent her senator a pizza — with a message.". The Washington Post. 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/.
- ↑ Castrodale, Jelisa (2017-02-06). "Senator's Voicemail Was Full, So Concerned Woman Sent Pizza to Protest DeVos" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/53qbp3/senators-voicemail-was-full-so-concerned-woman-sent-pizza-to-protest-devos.
External links
- Julia Silge publications indexed by Google Scholar
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