Dave Parr

Data-scientist who loves to use #datascienceforgood, especially in ecology, energy and the environment. Bonsai, gardening, bikes and music when I'm not at a keyboard.

Work

Head of Data Science and Product Development at surple
Location

Cardiff, Wales
Work status

I'm looking for work!
Education
Joined

Mar 29, 2019

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Dave Parr

Jun 25

Why use AWS Lambda for Data Science?

#python #datascience #serverless #aws

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Jun 10

Writing R packages, fast

#rstats #packages #tools

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May 25

#showdevI made my dev.to content into a website to find a new job

#projectbenatar #showdev #hugo #stackbit

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May 24

#showdevPosting straight from .Rmd to dev.to (for real this time)

#rstats #projectbenatar #showdev #meta

4 min read

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May 9

Introducing the Pokedex package!

#R #Pokemon #tidyverse #RStats

5 min read

Dave Parr

Aug 5

#showdevMy GitHub profile shows my popular dev.to posts and GitHub repos automatically

#github #rstats #showdev #r

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Recent Comments

re: S1:E2 - How to make remote work, work Aug 6

No sweat, thanks for the tip. Love Fosters Home for Imaginary...

re: Pimp Your GitHub Profile Aug 5

Mine automatically displays my most popular blog posts and pl...

re: Explain API gateway to me like I’m five Jul 24

As long as your five year old is from the 90s... API gateway...

re: I Created My Blog Using DevTo api and React Js💛, Here is how to... Jul 19

I like the use case. I'm currently also writing a wrapper to ...

re: I Created My Blog Using DevTo api and React Js💛, Here is how to... Jul 19

You might be able to get some ideas/design cues from the stac...

re: How I Built A Self-Updating README On My Github Profile Jul 16

Very pragmatic ✅

re: How I Built A Self-Updating README On My Github Profile Jul 16

That's neat. Out of personal curiosity what use R for that pa...

re: Favorite Examples of Clear, Understandable Documentation? Jul 16

The tidyverse documentation is phenomenal. In R we have a f...

Dave Parr

Jul 17

How to calculate a Pokemons 'power level' using kmeans

#rstats #datascience #videogame #pokemon

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Jul 1

The Missingno Experiment and Multiple Form Pokemon

#rstats #datascience #pokemon

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Jun 30

#showdevWhy did I make this dev.to API wrapper?

#showdev #projectbenatar #meta #rstats

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Jun 26

Nativefier is bonkers

#npm #electron #music #app

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Jun 26

#showdevInvestigating interactions between dev.to and stackbit

#projectbenatar #showdev #rstats #meta

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Jun 25

Building my first Django project with CSS and Static Files

#python #django #css

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Jun 17

#showdev3 minimal features for my dev.to api wrapper

#projectbenatar #showdev #rstats #functional

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Jun 17

#discussIs 'R' or 'Rstats' the preferred tag for the R programming language on dev?

#meta #discuss #r #rstats

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Jun 16

Webscraping with rvest and themeing ggplot

#rstats #pokemon #datascience #websscraping

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Jun 16

#helpIs it my imagination or was there a tag following intensity feature on dev.to?

#meta #help #discuss

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Jun 13

#helpRecommend an image hosting service for my dev.to api wrapper

#help #projectbenatar #discuss #rstats

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Jun 13

#helpA really hacky way to prevent dev.to posts turning up on your stackbit website by tag

#projectbenatar #stackbit #hugo #help

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Jun 11

Building my first Django project with pages

#python #django #hugo #jekyll

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Jun 3

#showdevTesting my dev.to API package with testthat, webmockr and vcr

#Rstats #projectbenatar #showdev #testing

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Jun 1

#watercoolerDoes anyone have any meetup alternatives?

#watercooler #discuss #eventsinyourcity

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Jun 1

Building my first Django project with a Database

#python #django #sqlite

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Jun 1

Building my first Django project

#python #django

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May 27

Setting up a Django dev environment

#python #django #git #pipenv

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May 23

#helpIs there an API endpoint to upload images to DEV.TO?

#help #meta #projectbenatar #Rstats

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May 20

#showdevPosting from .Rmd to dev.to

#Rstats #projectbenatar #showdev #markdown

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May 19

Tidy Tuesday and space to learn

#RStats #tidyverse #tidytuesday

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May 13

Is there a good way to post from .Rmd to dev.to yet?

#Rstats #question #devto #blogging

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May 13

Pocket Monster BMI

#Rstats #tidyverse #pokemon #functional

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Jan 10

Local gitlab runners, 'no such image', docker and disk space

#cicd #docker #gitlab

3 min read

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Aug 27 '19

The Real Difference (TM) between Python and R for Data Science

#datascience #rstats #python #comparison

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