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Julia Silge

@juliasilge.com
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Building data science tools @posit.co, #rstats, parenthood ✨📊✨

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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 30/09/2026
I'm super excited to join the folks from @motherduck.com at Data Outpost in November! I'll be speaking about why the investments that make SQL comfortable for humans turn out to be the same ones that make it tractable for an agent 🤖 Check out the details at www.dataoutpost.ai
"THE SQL AGENT HARNESS WE DIDN’T MEAN TO BUILD" talk at Data Outpost, MotherDuck's conference on Nov 5, 2026
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 09/09/2026
Importing data via the UI was our TOP MOST UPVOTED GitHub issue, and it's really exciting to have a first version of it ready to go!
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 13/08/2026
If you try out the new preview support for Data Connections, we would love to hear what did/didn't work for you!
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 13/07/2026
One feature that *I* got to work that I'm excited about is opening the Data Explorer from an editor, like this:
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 08/06/2026
We admit we're in an awkward spot right now 😅 in this migration for our AI coding assistance tooling, but I am really happy with how the Posit Assistant experience is shaping up. Give it a try, if you haven't yet!
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 11/05/2026
I was never a fan of inline output myself in RStudio, so it's been illuminating to hear from folks about how much they miss it. We're excited to have found a path forward to support it! I also think it will be interesting to see how it resonates with #Python folks, coming from `.ipynb` editors. 🐍
A Quarto document open in Positron showing inline output beneath an executed code cell, with an execution status line indicating runtime
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 10/08/2025
I'm excited to speak this afternoon at #useR2025 on outgrowing your laptop with #Positron for #rstats users! You can check out my slides at juliasilge.github.io/useR-2025/
Galaxy brain meme format outlining options for working with data: CSV file, parquet & duckdb, databases, and remote SSH sessions
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 05/08/2025
And we have support for folder templates (although not a lot so far), to help you scaffold a new project (casual, informal meaning) and/or folder and/or workspace:
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 06/04/2025
There were THOUSANDS of protestors at the Utah state capitol today #handsoff
The Utah state capitol under a blue sky with thousands of protestors
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 01/03/2024
My youngest child is EXTREMELY INTO @xkcd.com and we used #rstats to make this tonight together: (See xkcd.com/2435/)
geothmetic_meandian <- function(x) {
  while (any(x - mean(x) > 1e-8)) {
    x1 <- prod(x) ^ (1 / length(x))
    x2 <- mean(x)
    x3 <- median(x)
    x <- c(x1, x2, x3)
  }
  x[1]
}

geothmetic_meandian(c(1, 1, 2, 3, 5))
#> [1] 2.089058
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 14/10/2023
We have come down to southern Utah for our kids’ fall break and the ANNULAR ECLIPSE and it was incredible. We saw a perfect ring of fire and the sky got dark enough for us to see stars.
Circular lights/shadows coming through the trees during the annular eclipseCircular lights/shadows coming through the trees during the annular eclipse
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 27/08/2023
Decided to take things in MY OWN HANDS in Taylor Swift Eras Tour style. #rstats I will have these with me at posit::conf() in a few weeks:
Beaded friendship bracelets that say things like “tidyverse” and “pip install”
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 26/06/2023
We did it! 😆 It was super fun.
My husband and I with Elvis, at our vow renewal
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Julia Silge @juliasilge.com · 11/06/2023
I am 45 today!!! 🎂🎉🥳
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