Julia Silge Courses

First Look at Positron - Exploring Orca Encounters

Explore orca encounters using Positron, a next-generation data science IDE, in this hands-on demonstration of its capabilities and features.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Release an R Package with Positron

Dive into R package development with Positron, a next-generation data science IDE, as Julia Silge demonstrates the process of releasing a package to CRAN.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How to Handle High Cardinality Predictors for Data on Museums in the UK

Explore effect and likelihood encodings for high cardinality predictors in tidymodels, using UK museum data to demonstrate practical applications.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Deploy Different Prediction Types for a Bigfoot Sighting Model

Learn to deploy various prediction endpoints for a Bigfoot sighting model using vetiver, including feature engineering, logistic regression, and natural language processing techniques.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Deploy a Model for LEGO Sets With Docker

Predict LEGO set piece counts using machine learning, then deploy the model with Docker for easy sharing and reproducibility.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Understand the Gender Pay Gap Three Ways

Explore three increasingly complex approaches to analyze UK gender pay gap data, from basic comparisons to robust statistical modeling.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Handling Coefficients for Modeling Collegiate Sports Expenditures

Explore collegiate sports expenditures using linear modeling and tidymodels, focusing on handling coefficients and intervals for insightful analysis of financial patterns.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Poisson Regression with Tidymodels for Package Vignette Counts

Learn to fit zero-inflated Poisson regression models using tidymodels to analyze R package vignette counts, with practical examples and code demonstrations.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Feature Engineering & Interpretability for XGBoost with Board Game Ratings

Explore advanced modeling with board game ratings data: feature engineering, XGBoost tuning, and explainability methods for data-driven insights and predictive analysis.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Topic Modeling for Spice Girls Lyrics

Explore topic modeling using R to analyze Spice Girls lyrics, uncovering hidden themes and patterns in their music through unsupervised machine learning techniques.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Predicting Viewership for Doctor Who Episodes

Explore predictive modeling for Doctor Who episode viewership using tidymodels, with a focus on flexibility and control in handling modeling objects.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Predict Giant Pumpkin Weights With Tidymodels Workflowsets

Learn to predict giant pumpkin weights using tidymodels workflowsets. Explore data visualization, modeling techniques, and parallel processing for efficient analysis of #TidyTuesday pumpkin competition data.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Tune and Evaluate a Multiclass Lasso Model for NBER Working Papers

Explore multiclass lasso modeling for economic research papers, covering data analysis, feature engineering, model tuning, and evaluation using #TidyTuesday data.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Fit and Predict With Logistic Regression for Bird Bath Observations in Australia

Learn to model bird bath observations in Australia using tidymodels, combining model specifications with feature engineering recipes for effective fitting and prediction.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Use Tidymodels Workflowsets to Predict Human-Computer Interactions from Star Trek

Explore machine learning with tidymodels workflowsets to predict speaker type in Star Trek interactions, featuring data preprocessing, model evaluation, and result analysis.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video