Julia Silge

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 RStudio.[1]

Julia Silge
Born (1978-06-10) June 10, 1978
Alma materTexas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin
Scientific career
Fields
Websitejuliasilge.com

Education and career

Silge studied physics at Texas A&M University, graduating in 2000. She obtained her MA (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.

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 9781491981658. OCLC 993582128.

References
  1. "About RStudio". RStudio. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  2. "Stack Overflow profile of Julia Silge". Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  3. Tache, Nicole (2017-07-26). "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  4. "Julia Silge Resume". Julia Silge. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  5. "Which programming languages earn you the most money? Use this calculator to check". ZDNet. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  6. "These are the 10 skills to learn if you want to advance in a career in tech". Business Insider. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  7. "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Text". Julia Silge. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  8. "The states that Americans sing about most". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  9. "R's tidytext turns messy text into valuable insight". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  10. "She had something to say about Betsy DeVos. So she sent her senator a pizza — with a message". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  11. "Senator's Voicemail Was Full, So Concerned Woman Sent Pizza to Protest DeVos". Vice. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
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