Episode 4: Using Data to Explore Software Communities and Culture by Julia Silge
Tune in to Episode 4 below, or listen on Spotify to hear Julia’s compelling story and how YOU can get involved with Let’s Make It Count and the 2020 National Census Data Competition. It’s 2020 and Your Voice Matters.
In this week's episode, we visit with Julia Silge, a Data Scientist and Software Developer at RStudio. Julia shares her exciting career journey from physics and astronomy, to data science. A key theme that arises, is Julia's work to build thriving software communities.
October 9, 2020
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In this week’s episode, we visit with Julia Silge, a Data Scientist and Software Developer at RStudio. Julia shares her exciting career journey from physics and astronomy, to data science. A key theme that arises, is Julia's work to build thriving software communities. This includes ground-breaking research through the Stack Overflow Developer Survey to understand disparities between members of the community, through the use of survey methods and demographic data. Julia also discusses the latest trends in open-source software, associated business models to sustain development efforts over time, and her own contributions to the open-source community with the TidyText text mining package in R.
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Links from this episode:
Modeling salary and gender in the tech industry
Opioid prescribing habits in Texas
Understanding gender roles in movies with text mining
Join the Competition:
Let's Make It Count is a data science education initiative launched by the National Science Foundation West Big Data Innovation Hub at SXSW 2019, timed with the 2020 Census and in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistics in Schools program. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 1916573, 1916481, 1915774, as part of a national network of Regional Big Data Innovation Hubs.