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

Education

Masters

Work

Product Owner at sero

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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

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

#showdev #projectbenatar #hugo #stackbit

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May 24

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

#showdev #rstats #projectbenatar #meta

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May 9

Introducing the Pokedex package!

#R #Pokemon #tidyverse #RStats

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Aug 5

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

#showdev #github #rstats #r

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Recent Comments

re: Explain API gateway to me like I’m five Oct 2

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

re: Is there an API endpoint to upload images to DEV.TO? Sep 9

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

re: What are some lesser-known roles and specializations within software development? Aug 21

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

re: how many parameters? Aug 17

Absolutely.

re: Is accidental complexity inevitable? Aug 17

I think you're probably right, all the way through :)

re: how many parameters? Aug 17

No sweat. I tend to be able to keep the parameters small as a...

re: Is accidental complexity inevitable? Aug 17

Tl;Dr isn't this more about the imperfect 'celebrity' tools y...

re: What are the codes to run in order, for a Django project? I have python3 and pip installed Aug 17

I'd recommend having a look at @williams.vincent here, and hi...

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

Why 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

Investigating interactions between dev.to and stackbit

#showdev #projectbenatar #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

3 minimal features for my dev.to api wrapper

#showdev #projectbenatar #rstats #functional

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Jun 17

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

#discuss #meta #r #rstats

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Jun 16

Webscraping with rvest and themeing ggplot

#rstats #pokemon #datascience #websscraping

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Jun 16

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

#help #meta #discuss

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Jun 13

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

#help #projectbenatar #discuss #rstats

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Jun 13

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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Jun 11

Building my first Django project with pages

#python #django #hugo #jekyll

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Jun 3

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

#showdev #Rstats #projectbenatar #testing

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Jun 1

Does 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

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

#help #meta #projectbenatar #Rstats

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May 20

Posting from .Rmd to dev.to

#showdev #Rstats #projectbenatar #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

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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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