Julia Silge's Blog
March 18, 2025
Release an R package with Positron
See how you can use Positron, a new, next-generation data science IDE, for R package development tasks and releasing a new version of an R package.
October 13, 2024
Positron in action with #TidyTuesday orca encounters
Get to know Positron, a new, next-generation data science IDE, using this week’s Tidy Tuesday data on encounters with orcas.
April 23, 2024
Educational attainment in #TidyTuesday UK towns
Let’s walk through the ML lifecycle from EDA to model development to deployment, using tidymodels, vetiver, and Posit Team.
January 16, 2024
Changes in #TidyTuesday US polling places
Let’s use summarization and visualization to explore how the numbers of polling places have changed in the United States.
November 28, 2023
Empirical Bayes for #TidyTuesday Doctor Who episodes
Which writers of Doctor Who episodes are rated the most highly? Let’s use empirical Bayes to find out.
November 6, 2023
Logistic regression modeling for #TidyTuesday US House Elections
Today is Election Day in the United States, so let’s use logistic regression modeling to explore vote share in US House elections.
October 22, 2023
Topic modeling for #TidyTuesday Taylor Swift lyrics
Learn how to fit and interpret an unsupervised text model for all of Taylor Swift’s ERAS.
October 10, 2023
Where are #TidyTuesday haunted cemeteries compared to haunted schools?
Use tidy log odds to compare which US states are more likely to have haunted cemeteries or haunted schools.
September 26, 2023
How often does Roy Kent say "F*CK"?
He’s here, he’s there, he’s every f*cking where, and we’re finding bootstrap confidence intervals.
August 31, 2023
Evaluate multiple modeling approaches for #TidyTuesday spam email
Use workflowsets to evaluate multiple possible models to predict whether email is spam.
