Julia Silge

Julia Silge @juliasilge

About: 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.

Location:
Salt Lake City, UT
Joined:
Jul 18, 2017

Julia Silge
articles - 49 total

Topic modeling for Spice Girls lyrics 🇬🇧👯‍♀️🎤

Learn how to train, explore, and understand an unsupervised topic model for text data.

Learn More 6 0Dec 18 '21

Predicting viewership for Doctor Who episodes

Using a tidymodels workflow can make many modeling tasks more convenient, but sometimes you want more flexibility and control of how to handle your modeling objects. Learn how to handle resampled workflow results and extract the quantities you are interested in.

Learn More 0 0Nov 28 '21

Predict giant pumpkin weights 🎃 with tidymodels

Get started with tidymodels workflowsets to handle and evaluate multiple preprocessing and modeling approaches simultaneously, using pumpkin competitions.

Learn More 6 0Nov 9 '21

Spatial resampling for the #30DayMapChallenge 🗺

Use spatial resampling to more accurately estimate model performance for geographic data

Learn More 1 0Nov 12 '21

Multiclass predictive modeling for economics research papers 📑

Tune and evaluate a multiclass model with lasso regulariztion for NBER working papers.

Learn More 6 0Sep 30 '21

Dimensionality reduction for Billboard Top 100 songs 🎶

Songs on the Billboard Top 100 have many audio features! We can use data preprocessing recipes to implement dimensionality reduction and understand how these features are related.

Learn More 4 0Sep 16 '21

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

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Sep 4 '21

Modeling human/computer interactions on Star Trek 🖖

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Aug 26 '21

Predict housing prices 🏠 in Austin TX with xgboost

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 1 0Aug 23 '21

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

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 3 1Aug 11 '21

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

Early stopping can keep an xgboost model from overfitting.

Learn More 1 0Aug 8 '21

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

Which Scooby Doo monsters are REAL?! Walk through how to tune and then choose a decision tree model, as well as how to visualize and evaluate the results.

Learn More 3 0Jul 14 '21

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

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Jul 2 '21

Class imbalance and classification metrics with aircraft wildlife strikes ✈️

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Jul 1 '21

Partial dependence plots for Mario Kart 🍄 world records

This screencast walks through how to use tidymodels to tune a decision tree model to predict whether #TidyTuesday Mario Kart world records used a shortcut or not, and how to use DALEX to explore partial dependence profiles for the world record times.

Learn More 1 0May 29 '21

Predict water availability 🚰 in Sierra Leone with random forests

Walk through a tidymodels analysis from beginning to end to predict whether water is available at a specific location in Sierra Leone.

Learn More 6 0May 7 '21

Estimate change in CEO departures with bootstrap resampling

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 5 0May 1 '21

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

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 7 1May 1 '21

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

Use tidymodels to predict post office location with subword features and a support vector machine model.

Learn More 1 0Apr 22 '21

Dimensionality reduction of United Nations voting patterns 🌍

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Apr 15 '21

Bootstrap confidence intervals for Super Bowl commercials 🏈

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 1 0Apr 15 '21

Understand inequality in student debt 🎓 with linear modeling

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 1 0Feb 21 '21

Learn tidytext with my new learnr course

Today I am happy to announce that a new free, online, open source, interactive tutorial, Text Mining...

Learn More 5 0Feb 21 '21

Explore art over time in the Tate collection 🖼

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 0 0Jan 16 '21

Code generation for tuning random forests using IKEA furniture prices 🛋

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 7 0Dec 4 '20

Tune and interpret decision trees for wind turbine capacity 🌬

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 3 0Oct 29 '20

Predicting class membership for the Datasaurus Dozen 🦖

This is the latest in my series of screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels packages, from...

Learn More 4 0Oct 16 '20

Modeling NCAA women's 🏀 tournament seeds

Lately I’ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, from start...

Learn More 7 0Oct 7 '20

Introducing our new book, Tidy Modeling with R 📖

Max Kuhn and I are pleased to announce our new book, Tidy Modeling with R! This book focuses on ho...

Learn More 8 1Sep 25 '20

Handle class imbalance in modeling Himalayan climbing expeditions ⛰

Lately I’ve been publishing screencasts demonstrating how to use the tidymodels framework, from start...

Learn More 0 0Sep 23 '20