Dave Parr

Dave Parr @daveparr

About: 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.

Location:
Cardiff, Wales
Joined:
Mar 29, 2019

Dave Parr
articles - 34 total

Moving Starpilot to GraphQL

After building Starpilot at the end of last year and using it for a little. I became pretty...

Learn More 1 2Jan 16 '24

How do you use your VSCode profile?

I've been using VScode profiles for a while, but I fee like my profiles are turnung into a mess. I...

Learn More 0 0Jan 12 '24

Copilot for your GitHub stars

How do you use your GitHub stars? I'd guess if you've been programming for a few years you've...

Learn More 5 9Nov 19 '23

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

This is my github profile: DaveParr / DaveParr...

Learn More 9 0Aug 5 '20

How to calculate a Pokemons 'power level' using kmeans

library(pokedex) library(tidyverse) library(tidymodels) library(showtext) font_add_google("Press...

Learn More 7 1Jul 17 '20

The Missingno Experiment and Multiple Form Pokemon

Wild missingno appeared! Missingno is the patron Pokemon of data science. You’re just...

Learn More 8 0Jul 1 '20

Why did I make this dev.to API wrapper?

dev.to.ol is 0.0.1! DaveParr / dev.to.ol...

Learn More 3 0Jun 30 '20

Nativefier is bonkers

I made an electron app in 4 lines... nativefier "http://musicforprogramming.net/" -n...

Learn More 6 0Jun 26 '20

Investigating interactions between dev.to and stackbit

Is the description also the excerpt? I was poking around in the dev.to api, and had my sta...

Learn More 4 0Jun 26 '20

Why use AWS Lambda for Data Science?

Motivation Serverless is a way to deploy code, without having to manage the infrastructure...

Learn More 32 3Jun 25 '20

Building my first Django project with CSS and Static Files

I'm working through Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent. Until now we've had some pretty...

Learn More 6 1Jun 25 '20

3 minimal features for my dev.to api wrapper

I’ve made 3 very small features for my open source R package wrapping the dev.to API. ...

Learn More 5 0Jun 17 '20

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

The language is called R. There a strong convention of the tag #rstats being used in social media su...

Learn More 4 12Jun 17 '20

Webscraping with rvest and themeing ggplot

library(tidyverse) library(pokedex) Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode ...

Learn More 8 1Jun 16 '20

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

I seem to remember that there was a mechanism for my user to say per tag how interested they were on...

Learn More 4 7Jun 16 '20

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

I am writing a wrapper in R for the dev.to API. One of the goals is to allow images that are generate...

Learn More 3 2Jun 13 '20

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

So I have found a method to prevent posts with discuss, watercooler, help, etc. turning up in my Stac...

Learn More 1 0Jun 13 '20

Building my first Django project with pages

I'm working through Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent. Chapter 3 starts using templates and...

Learn More 8 0Jun 11 '20

Writing R packages, fast

R packages are great. R users have a rich ecosystem of extensions to help us doing various things. We...

Learn More 12 0Jun 10 '20

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

I’ve been working on an open source R package wrapping the dev.to API. After a bit of prototyping the...

Learn More 6 2Jun 3 '20

Does anyone have any meetup alternatives?

I found this article on meetup alternatives interesting. I'm an organiser for Cardiff R Usergroup, an...

Learn More 2 4Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project with a Database

I'm working through Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent. Chapter 4 starts using a database to...

Learn More 5 0Jun 1 '20

Building my first Django project

I'm working through Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent. The second chapter gets us into...

Learn More 2 0Jun 1 '20

Setting up a Django dev environment

I'm working through Django for Beginners by William S. Vincent. The first part is about setting up...

Learn More 5 0May 27 '20

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

After discovering this post and this post, I decided to use this tooling to get a very simple job...

Learn More 37 3May 25 '20

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

I’ve spent a little time fleshing out my open source R package to post from .Rmd straight to...

Learn More 15 0May 24 '20

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

I'm continuing to work on dev.to.ol. Some of the future work is sort of clear to me, but I'm still mi...

Learn More 3 5May 23 '20

Posting from .Rmd to dev.to

I’ve started making an R package called dev.to.ol. Dev.to has an api which is in beta, which I’m...

Learn More 6 2May 20 '20

Tidy Tuesday and space to learn

TidyTusdays are a weekly R Community event where people learn about RStats by practising with a...

Learn More 6 0May 19 '20

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

I know we have blogdown and distill, which are great for hosting whole sites. We also have the github...

Learn More 2 1May 13 '20