Julia Silge (born June 10, 1978) is an American data scientist and software engineer.

She has developed tools for statistical modelling in the R programming language,[1][2] including the text mining package tidytext.

[citation needed] Silge has worked as a data scientist for several companies, most recently Stack Overflow and Posit PBC.

[6] She also began working on tidytext, an R package for text mining, with colleague David Robinson.

[9] In February 2017, Silge made the news when she used a note attached to a pizza delivery to contact her senator Orrin Hatch to object to the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, after failing to reach Hatch by phone.