Ben Fradet's blog

Last week, my partner and I went on a bicycle tour along the French Mediterranean coast in Provence. We started from the West of Marseille where we live to join friends near Fréjus which is further along the French Mediterranean coast to the East.

For the past couple of years I’ve been working on and off on Dashing, it’s a set of dashboards to monitor an open source organization’s health on GitHub.

This is a small blog post on circe-fs2, a small library for streaming, using fs2, JSON parsing and decoding, using circe.

We’re pleased to announce version 0.4.0 of Spark Kafka Writer.

A few months back I bought the excellent Type Astronaut’s Guide to Shapeless which is, as its name implies, a comprehensive guide to Shapeless: a Scala library making it easier to do generic programming.

We’re pleased to announce version 0.3.0 of Spark Kafka Writer.

RiotSharp 2.5 has been released for a couple of days, this post will list what’s new.

Riot Games recently held a hackathon, from September 20th to 24th, at their headquarters in Los Angeles. I was invited and I’m going to tell you what my team ended up doing!

As a reminder, Spark Kafka writer is a project that lets you save your Spark RDDs and DStreams to Kafka seamlessly.

Spark Kafka writer is a little project that lets you save your Spark RDDs and DStreams to Kafka seamlessly.

This post will detail how I built my entry to the Kaggle San Francisco crime classification competition using Apache Spark and the new ML library.

In this post, I’ll show you how to use alternating least squares (ALS for short) in spark.ml.

In this is post, I’ll give a quick overview of the new features in the new release of RiotSharp, the C# wrapper for the Riot Games API.

It’s been a while since my last post, and in this post I’m going to talk about a technology I’ve been using for almost a year now: Apache Spark.

A quick post to announce the the next iteration of RiotSharp, our C# wrapper for the Riot Games API. As usual, I will list the changes for this new version and what we are planning for the 2.2.

In this post, I will walk you through an application of the k-nearest neighbors algorithm to diagnose breast cancer.

We are pleased to announce the second version of RiotSharp, our C# wrapper for the Riot Games API. In this post, I will detail the changes made to the wrapper.

I recently used the K-means algorithm to cluster the colors I had in a picture to create a, what I think is, pretty cool profile picture. In this post, I will show you how I managed to do that.

If you still don’t use ggplot2 or, as I do, have to use the old and finicky plot() function, read on to discover a trick I use to display a legend outside the plotting area.