About the Author

Julia Silge is a data scientist at Datassist where her work involves analyzing and modeling complex data sets while communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences. She has a PhD in Astrophysics, as well as abiding affections for Jane Austen and making beautiful charts. Julia worked in academia and ed tech before moving into data science and discovering R. David Robinson is a data scientist at Stack Overflow. He has a PhD in Quantitative and Computational Biology from Princeton University, where he worked with Professor John Storey on genomic analysis. He enjoys working and blogging about statistics, R programming, and text mining, including a popular analysis of Donald Trump's twitter account (performed according to the tidy data principles described in this book).