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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

Education

Masters

Work

Product Owner at sero

pokedex

an R data package for pokemon

R • 6 stars

snakes_and_lambdas

Talk for pydata on python datascience lambdas

JavaScript • 5 stars

dev.to.ol

dev.to.ol helps R users publish to dev.to

R • 1 star

GotRCatchEmAll

slides for lightning talk first given at the founding satRday, Budapest 2016

HTML

React and Firebase to make Progressive Web Apps

R, python, sql.
Data science, data analysis, business intelligence, data architecture. Community/personal projects with Hugo, Jekyll and JAMStack.

The dev.to.ol package for posting to dev.to.ol using the API 🦾. Maintain the SatRday conference organisations website development and deployment process.

Just about everything.

31 posts published

98 comments written

29 tags followed

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Dave Parr

Jun 25 '20

Why use AWS Lambda for Data Science?

#python #datascience #serverless #aws

4 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 10 '20

Writing R packages, fast

#rstats #packages #tools

8 min read

Dave Parr

May 25 '20

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

#showdev #projectbenatar #hugo #stackbit

2 min read

Dave Parr

May 24 '20

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

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #meta

4 min read

Dave Parr

May 9 '20

Introducing the Pokedex package!

#r #pokemon #tidyverse #rstats

5 min read

Dave Parr

Aug 5 '20

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

#showdev #github #rstats #r

4 min read

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Dave Parr

Jul 17 '20

How to calculate a Pokemons 'power level' using kmeans

#rstats #datascience #videogame #pokemon

9 min read

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

1 min read

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

2 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 17 '20

3 minimal features for my dev.to api wrapper

#showdev #projectbenatar #rstats #functional

2 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 17 '20

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

#discuss #meta #r #rstats

1 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 16 '20

Webscraping with rvest and themeing ggplot

#rstats #pokemon #datascience #websscraping

3 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 16 '20

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

#help #meta #discuss

1 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 13 '20

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

#help #projectbenatar #discuss #rstats

1 min read

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

2 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 11 '20

Building my first Django project with pages

#python #django #hugo #jekyll

2 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 3 '20

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

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #testing

6 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Does anyone have any meetup alternatives?

#watercooler #discuss #eventsinyourcity

1 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project with a Database

#python #django #sqlite

1 min read

Dave Parr

Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project

#python #django

2 min read

Dave Parr

May 27 '20

Setting up a Django dev environment

#python #django #git #pipenv

1 min read

Dave Parr

May 23 '20

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

#help #meta #projectbenatar #rstats

1 min read

Dave Parr

May 20 '20

Posting from .Rmd to dev.to

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #markdown

4 min read

Dave Parr

May 19 '20

Tidy Tuesday and space to learn

#rstats #tidyverse #tidytuesday

7 min read

Dave Parr

May 13 '20

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

#rstats #question #devto #blogging

1 min read

Dave Parr

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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