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Julia Silge
Personal blog · juliasilge.com/blogdataprogramming
Julia Silge's personal blog at juliasilge.com covers data and programming. Since 2016, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “On DataCamp and sexual misconduct”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post as a brief summary of an analysis of Pride and Prejudice using z-scores and NLP. One commenter points to the author's longer write-up of the same work as the fuller version.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
I'm a tool builder, author, international keynote speaker, and real-world practitioner focusing on data analysis and machine learning. I love making beautiful charts and communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences.
Most-linked posts?
- On DataCamp and sexual misconduct2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-17
- How often does Roy Kent say “Fuck”?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-27
What Hacker News says?
The post is a brief summary of an article by the person who did the analysis: http://juliasilge.com/blog/If-I-Loved-NLP-Less/ Which goes into considerably more detail, and has animated GIFs.
Comment linking /blog/If-I-Loved-NLP-Less/
on “Pride and Prejudice and Z-scores”Submitted On DataCamp and sexual misconduct as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gender Roles with Text Mining and N-grams as a story · 50 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing a Letter to DataCamp as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Delete all your tweets using rtweet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fatal Police Shootings Across the U.S as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Must Allow Me to Tell You How Ardently I Admire and Love NLP as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How often does Roy Kent say “Fuck”? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love R CMD Check as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How often does Roy Kent say “Fuck”? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dimensionality reduction for Billboard Top songs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Julia Silge – Word Vectors with tidy data principles as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
