Ben Fradet's blog

Coast of Provence bicycle tour

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.

July 3, 2019 - cycling

OSS GitHub organizations monitoring

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.

May 30, 2019 - http4s, scala-js

spark-kafka-writer v0.2.0 released!

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

October 5, 2016 - Spark, Kafka, tutorial

spark-kafka-writer v0.1.0 released!

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

August 28, 2016 - Spark, Kafka, tutorial

RiotSharp 2.1 released

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.

September 30, 2014 - RiotSharp, release

Using K-means for image compression

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.

September 19, 2014 - machine learning, tutorial, Octave

How to display a legend outside a R plot

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.

April 30, 2014 - how-to, R

I'm a software engineer at 47 Degrees. I like FP, snowboarding, SC2, cycling and running. I live in the South of France.