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
• Self-Paced
• 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
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Use GitHub Copilot with Positron Assistant

Discover how to leverage GitHub Copilot integration with Positron Assistant for enhanced AI-powered data science coding workflows in this 16-minute tutorial.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Explore Literary Prizes with Positron's Data Explorer

Discover Positron's enhanced Data Explorer through literary prize analysis, featuring interactive data viewing for CSV, Parquet files, and R/Python objects in this monthly release demo.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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

Handle high-cardinality predictors in tidymodels using likelihood or effect encodings, then build and evaluate an XGBoost model with UK museum data.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deploy Different Prediction Types for a Bigfoot Sighting Model

Learn to expose a text classification model through REST endpoints that return predicted classes or probabilities.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deploy a Model for LEGO Sets With Docker

Package a LEGO-set prediction model in Docker and expose it through a portable prediction API.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understand the Gender Pay Gap Three Ways

Explore three increasingly robust ways to analyze and visualize UK gender pay-gap data across economic activities: summaries, linear modeling, and bootstrap intervals.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Handling Coefficients for Modeling Collegiate Sports Expenditures

Use R and tidymodels to interpret linear-model coefficients and uncertainty intervals while analyzing collegiate sports expenditures.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Poisson Regression with Tidymodels for Package Vignette Counts

Fit a zero-inflated Poisson model in R with tidymodels to analyze package vignette counts using special formulas and bootstrap resampling.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Feature Engineering & Interpretability for XGBoost with Board Game Ratings

Use custom feature engineering, tuned XGBoost, and SHAP-based plots to predict board-game ratings and explain nonlinear model behavior.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Topic Modeling for Spice Girls Lyrics

Use R to prepare lyrics, train an unsupervised topic model, and explore the topics discovered in Spice Girls songs.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Predicting Viewership for Doctor Who Episodes

Use tidymodels workflows and bootstrap resampling to extract model coefficients while predicting Doctor Who episode viewership from dates.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Predict Giant Pumpkin Weights With Tidymodels Workflowsets

Use tidymodels workflowsets to compare preprocessing and modeling combinations for predicting giant pumpkin weights.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tune and Evaluate a Multiclass Lasso Model for NBER Working Papers

Build, tune, and evaluate a multiclass lasso model using working-paper titles and publication years to predict economics research categories.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video