Freddie Tasker

Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 6, 2020

Automating Running Routes in R

Using the Graphhopper API (with help from rvest and PostcodesIO) to run down every Mews in London — Winter has arrived in the UK and as everyone else gets their boilers hurriedly repaired, my primary concern is keeping weekly running mileage up while temperatures go the other way. Exploring new bits of London seemed a good idea, and not having to think about what route to take seemed…

API

3 min read

Published in Towards Data Science

·Jun 10, 2020

Breathing Life in to Power Apps with the Unsplash API

How to use REST APIs in Microsoft Power Automate (AKA Flow) to add random, but oh so beautiful, images to your SharePoint List — Watching Power App tutorials can be a bit like watching grass grow. On drying paint. While you wait for the kettle to boil. …

Powerapps

5 min read

Published in Towards Data Science

·Jun 2, 2020

Interactive Power BI Custom Visuals with R

Interactive visuals with ggplot, plotly and the Power BI CLI — Sometimes the right Power BI visual just isn’t there. Trying to create an executive summary of project management data recently I hit just this wall. The idea was a report page that would be a front page to users - a quick signpost before they got into the detail of…

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Interactive Power BI Custom Visuals with R