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.

Cardiff, Wales Joined on Mar 29, 2019 https://www.daveparr.info

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Dave Parr

Jun 25 '20

Why use AWS Lambda for Data Science?

#python #datascience #serverless #aws

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Jun 10 '20

Writing R packages, fast

#rstats #packages #tools

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May 25 '20

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

#showdev #projectbenatar #hugo #stackbit

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May 24 '20

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

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #meta

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Dave Parr

May 9 '20

Introducing the Pokedex package!

#r #pokemon #tidyverse #rstats

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Aug 5 '20

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

#showdev #github #rstats #r

4 min read

Is GitHub Desktop available for GNU/Linux?

Absolute banger, thanks for the tip, trialling now on POP_OS!

Jun 10

A Complete Beginner's Guide to React: Hooks Edition

Lol, sorry, I think I've found it now. Was being a doofus.

Jan 31

A Complete Beginner's Guide to React

This is great content, as always. I'm also really keen to re...

Jan 31

I'm delivering a tech talk. Any suggestions? 🤷‍♀️💡

First off: well done. Commiting to deliver a talk at any publ...

Nov 22 '20

What cross-posting solutions do you use?

Been using this solution for my website, and found the same t...

Nov 22 '20

Explain API gateway to me like I’m five

In fact a few months later we also got delivered one for the ...

Oct 2 '20

Is there an API endpoint to upload images to DEV.TO?

Thanks for the interest. In the end I was pretty sure it wasn...

Sep 9 '20

What are some lesser-known roles and specializations within software development?

I've never heard that term, but it references one of my favou...

Aug 21 '20

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Dave Parr

Jul 17 '20

How to calculate a Pokemons 'power level' using kmeans

#rstats #datascience #videogame #pokemon

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Dave Parr

Jul 1 '20

The Missingno Experiment and Multiple Form Pokemon

#rstats #datascience #pokemon

6 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 30 '20

Why did I make this dev.to API wrapper?

#showdev #projectbenatar #meta #rstats

6 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 26 '20

Nativefier is bonkers

#npm #electron #music #app

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Dave Parr

Jun 26 '20

Investigating interactions between dev.to and stackbit

#showdev #projectbenatar #rstats #meta

2 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 25 '20

Building my first Django project with CSS and Static Files

#python #django #css

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Dave Parr

Jun 17 '20

3 minimal features for my dev.to api wrapper

#showdev #projectbenatar #rstats #functional

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Dave Parr

Jun 17 '20

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

#discuss #meta #r #rstats

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Jun 16 '20

Webscraping with rvest and themeing ggplot

#rstats #pokemon #datascience #websscraping

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Dave Parr

Jun 16 '20

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

#help #meta #discuss

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Dave Parr

Jun 13 '20

Recommend an image hosting service for my dev.to api wrapper

#help #projectbenatar #discuss #rstats

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Dave Parr

Jun 13 '20

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

#help #projectbenatar #stackbit #hugo

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Dave Parr

Jun 11 '20

Building my first Django project with pages

#python #django #hugo #jekyll

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Dave Parr

Jun 3 '20

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

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #testing

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Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Does anyone have any meetup alternatives?

#watercooler #discuss #eventsinyourcity

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Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project with a Database

#python #django #sqlite

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Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project

#python #django

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Dave Parr

May 27 '20

Setting up a Django dev environment

#python #django #git #pipenv

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Dave Parr

May 23 '20

Is there an API endpoint to upload images to DEV.TO?

#help #meta #projectbenatar #rstats

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Dave Parr

May 20 '20

Posting from .Rmd to dev.to

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #markdown

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Dave Parr

May 19 '20

Tidy Tuesday and space to learn

#rstats #tidyverse #tidytuesday

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Dave Parr

May 13 '20

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

#rstats #question #devto #blogging

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May 13 '20

Pocket Monster BMI

#rstats #tidyverse #pokemon #functional

4 min read

Dave Parr

Jan 10 '20

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

#cicd #docker #gitlab

3 min read

Dave Parr

Aug 27 '19

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

#datascience #rstats #python #comparison

6 min read

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