Julia Silge
@juliasilge.com
Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨
If you are a local SLC data person, join me and other folks this Saturday, Nov 15, at Big Mountain Data & Dev, a free, one-day conference with a broad scope! 🏔️
I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics:
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I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics:
www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...
Big Mountain Data & Dev 2025 | Utah Geek Events
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you are a local SLC data person, join me and other folks this Saturday, Nov 15, at Big Mountain Data & Dev, a free, one-day conference with a broad scope! 🏔️
I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics:
www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...
I'm looking forward both to speaking myself and to learning about the wide variety of topics:
www.utahgeekevents.com/events/big-m...
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The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉
I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩
youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...
Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩
youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...
Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
Practical {renv} (Shannon Pileggi, The PCCTC) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The recording of my #rstats posit::conf talk ✨ practical {renv}✨ is available! 🎉
I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩
youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...
Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
I created this talk for frustrated {renv} users 🫠 and potential {renv} users🤩
youtu.be/l01u7Ue9pIQ?...
Even if {renv} isn't on your radar, you may still find this talk interesting if you are curious about🤔...
Join the SLC RUG next Wed, Nov 19 to hear from Brennan Bean about using #rstats to study snow loads! ❄️
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Understanding the evolving threat of snow loads with R as the great orchestrator, Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Our November Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event.
From our speaker:
"At the 2025 useR! conference, Simon Urbanek (Pre
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November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Join the SLC RUG next Wed, Nov 19 to hear from Brennan Bean about using #rstats to study snow loads! ❄️
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch!
- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
How I got unstuck with Python (Julia Silge, Posit) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My talk from posit::conf earlier this fall on getting unstuck with #Python is now available to watch!
- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
- Ten years ago, I attempted to learn Python and it went EXTRMELY badly 😩
- I am really happy that so much tooling in this area has improved SO much since then 😌
youtu.be/pMVYl9fx1EE
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My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
10 Years of Data Science Tools...and What Happens Next (Jonathan McPherson) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 7, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My keynote about data science tools at posit::conf is now online! I originally meant it to be a talk about Positron, but as I was writing it, it took a left turn through the history of RStudio and into the philosophy of tool design & how to build stuff for people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGre...
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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It was such a pleasure to join @hadley.nz, @wesmckinney.com, and @mchow.com on THE TEST SET! You can check out the two parts of our conversation here:
🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
It was such a pleasure to join @hadley.nz, @wesmckinney.com, and @mchow.com on THE TEST SET! You can check out the two parts of our conversation here:
🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🍕 posit.co/thetestset/e...
🤖 posit.co/thetestset/e...
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@juliasilge.com on a podcast is a must-listen ❤️❤️❤️
Entire interview is lovely and touches on so many things.
#dataBS #rstats
Link: overcast.fm/+ABQHd-cRS8Q
#dataBS #rstats
Link: overcast.fm/+ABQHd-cRS8Q
Julia Silge: Part 2 — Glue work, licensing, and open source in the age of LLMs — The Test Set by Posit
In part two of our conversation with Julia Silge, we discuss how work actually ships: the boundaries, the glue, and the tools that turn noise into signal. From there, we go macro and wonder what the L...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@juliasilge.com on a podcast is a must-listen ❤️❤️❤️
I was so pleased to join the @atds.space podcast to talk about my own career journey, how astronomy prepared me for working in data science, plus what I'm working on now! 💫
youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE
youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE
13. Julia Silge
YouTube video by Astronomers Turned Data Scientists
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October 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was so pleased to join the @atds.space podcast to talk about my own career journey, how astronomy prepared me for working in data science, plus what I'm working on now! 💫
youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE
youtu.be/qXoxWt7YGmE
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I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`.
It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm excited to share a new version of the Air formatter for #rstats, with support for tabular formatting! Super useful with `tibble::tribble()` calls or `data.table::fcase()`.
It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
It's currently experimental as we're looking to get feedback on the feature, so please let us know what you think.
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A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A number of people have told me this piece has been useful for them, maybe it will be for you, too — a simple description of the consensus view on AI amongst actual tech practitioners, presented as a tool for those who need to push back on the distorted narratives that tycoons are feeding media.
There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness.
youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
Explore literary prizes with Positron’s Data Explorer
YouTube video by Julia Silge
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October 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
There is a new monthly release of #Positron available, and it delivers fresh new features for the Data Explorer! In this screencast, I walk through how to interactively explore a recent #TidyTuesday dataset on literary prizes 📚📖🏆 using some of the Data Explorer newness.
youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
youtu.be/KOgQuWF0US4
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oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats
Join us here in about 5 min to learn about #rstats functions! 🥳
I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic
Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Join us here in about 5 min to learn about #rstats functions! 🥳
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I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
Event Time Announcer - Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic
Event Time Announcer shows time for Salt Lake City talk: Practical Functions, Practically Magic in locations all over the world. In Salt Lake City it happens on Tuesday, October 7, 2025 at 4:00:00 pm.
www.timeanddate.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I'm giving a talk next week about my favourite thing: functions! Come along!
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
What: Practical Functions - Practically Magic
When: 8th/9th October - www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Where: Online, via Salt Lake City R User Group www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
How: @juliasilge.com
#rstats
Join the SLC RUG on Oct 7 (next Tuesday!) to hear from @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy about how to write good #rstats functions 💫
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www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
Practical Functions, Practically Magic, Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our October Meetup will be a remote gathering; the Zoom link will be posted the week before the event.
From our speaker:
"I think the highest value skillset in statistical
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September 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Join the SLC RUG on Oct 7 (next Tuesday!) to hear from @njtierney.aus.social.ap.brid.gy about how to write good #rstats functions 💫
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow.
Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.
Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.
Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A data scientist and product owner shares her take on why the new Positron IDE is a game-changer for her workflow.
Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.
Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
Learn how Dr. Claire Welsh of The Strategy Unit uses Positron to streamline everything from project management to documentation.
Read her insights: posit.co/blog/positro...
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AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)
September 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
AI has real risks & we should have smart & evolving policy to manage them. By focusing the public's mind on very low probability/"high" consequence extinction events from super-intelligent AI, it slides acceptable windows of what bad things humans can do with AI right now (eg discrimination/disinfo)
If you are an #rstats user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat!
We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉
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We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
Networking and social gathering, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 4:00 PM | Meetup
Our September meetup will be an in-person gathering for local SLC area folks! We will meet at Thieves Guild Cidery near downtown to spend time networking, having some DnD-t
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September 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
If you are an #rstats user in the greater SLC area, join us IN PERSON next Tues, Sept 30 for some networking and data science chat!
We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
We are meeting at a place called Thieves Guild Cidery, which, yes, is a DnD-themed tavern. ⚔️🎲🐉
www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...
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"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
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📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
Interested in a rainbowR Conference?
rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...
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You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
September 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
#romancelandia
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H1B holders are net job creators. Ending the H1B visa will not result in more hiring of Americans or hiring overseas, it will simply destroy jobs and fewer people will be hired. It is racism shooting itself in the foot as usual.
September 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
H1B holders are net job creators. Ending the H1B visa will not result in more hiring of Americans or hiring overseas, it will simply destroy jobs and fewer people will be hired. It is racism shooting itself in the foot as usual.
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Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ?
#positconf2025
#positconf2025
September 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Could this {uv} solution recommended by @juliasilge.com be the answer to the personal hell that is "Import Error: no module named 'numpy'" ?
#positconf2025
#positconf2025
It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade.
You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...
You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...
How I got unstuck with Python
juliasilge.github.io
September 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade.
You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...
You can check out my slides at:
juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...