Data science hobby projects I’ve built so far:
🏚 2012 – “Rent Scraper” — A tool to find me the cheapest apartment to rent by scraping several websites every minute. (Bash, Python)
🗞 2013 – “Prionews” — A system to summarize daily news in an unbiased manner. (Bash, SQL, Python)
🤖 2014 – “Jarvic” — A self-learning chatbot. (Python)
🎨 2015 – “Write-Here-Anything” — A hard-to-describe website and art project. (JavaScript)
🌐 2016 – “Learn-Languages” — A simple script that prints the top 1,000 most important words to learn in any language, based on the script of the Friends TV show. (Python)
🖥 2017 – “User-Generator” — A Python script that simulates log/data creation for a mobile app, intended for educational purposes. (Python)
👬 2018 – “A/B Testing Redirect” — Code to implement an A/B test without using third-party tools. (JavaScript + Python)
📈 2019 – “Simple User Log” — A basic analytics tool designed to replace Google Analytics. (JavaScript + Python + Flask)
👨🏫 2020 – “Best Bet” — A game that educates people about the concept of “expected value.” (Python + Flask + HTML)
☘ 2021 – “Automated Gardener” — A hardware project that automatically takes care of my plants. (Python + Bash + Raspberry Pi)
💰 2022 – “BitPanda_DCA” — A simple automation tool that performs dollar-cost averaging on the Bitpanda platform for me. (Python + Bash)
🥃 2023 – “WhiskyReturns” — A platform that collects data on whisky investments and displays them in a simple chart. (Python, Bash, SQL, HTML, APIs, etc.)
Most of these projects are retired and offline, but they’ve been invaluable in teaching me about data science and coding. Building a hobby project is never a waste of time. You should start yours!
- If you want to learn more about how to become a data scientist, take my 50-minute video course: How to Become a Data Scientist. (It’s free!)
- Also check out my 6-week online course: The Junior Data Scientist’s First Month video course.
Cheers,
Tomi Mester
Cheers,
Tomi Mester
