Official Personal/Passion Projects Thread

[Macallik86]

Are you taking your new Python skills for a spin via a new app? Maybe you are in the process of turning on a self-hosted VPN? Jumping into PiHole before Manifest v3 rolls out? Working on using Docker instance to run Windows 11 + Linux on a used $70 laptop?

Whatever passion project you are working on, the purpose of this thread is to share it with the class... whether it's to ask for objective feedback, share a workaround you created, ask for help or just to revel in your progress.

 

[Neo The Resurrected ONE]

I'm about to start 3d printing a drone soon. It's going to be a small one to start out with. I eventually want to work my way up to creating my own custom drone design with custom functionality.

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Bookmarked. I got an idea for a project that will solve a problem I and others have been dealing with at my company. These fools own hundreds of locations in many different countries yet still rely on PDFs and Excel sheets to store contact details for each location

Not to mention suppliers, contractors etc. I can't believe nobody thought to organize that information into an app.

Tip for brehs who are learning to code: look for opportunities in your current job. If they rely on spreadsheets for certain processes, see if they can't be done more efficiently with code.

 

[BlaxOps]

Bookmarked. I got an idea for a project that will solve a problem I and others have been dealing with at my company. These fools own hundreds of locations in many different countries yet still rely on PDFs and Excel sheets to store contact details for each location

Not to mention suppliers, contractors etc. I can't believe nobody thought to organize that information into an app.

Tip for brehs who are learning to code: look for opportunities in your current job. If they rely on spreadsheets for certain processes, see if they can't be done more efficiently with code.

When I was in corporate, we used ServiceNow for that. Can be used for a directory, asset management, ticketing, alerts, asset discovery, managed downloads, and more.

 

[Macallik86]

Bumping this to share this thread digging into the data on black people.It was over in TLR so I almost missed it.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/where-us-black-people-date-smash-each-other-and-not-by-education-and-location-the-drbanneker-data-guide.953925/

Great job using data and hoping that any future projects are crossposted in this thread @DrBanneker

 

[DrBanneker]

Bumping this to share this thread digging into the data on black people.It was over in TLR so I almost missed it.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/where-us-black-people-date-smash-each-other-and-not-by-education-and-location-the-drbanneker-data-guide.953925/

Great job using data and hoping that any future projects are crossposted in this thread @DrBanneker

Thanks, I didn't use Python on this, just Excel but I did use Python to parse census data and find areas where there are large numbers of high income Black people located together which I used to make these for the PG County thread (though I actually live in Philly)

I mainly learned Python with scientific computing but it is pretty good for a lot of stuff. I can mass parse tweets with the Twitter API as well.

 

[DrBanneker]

I did a HBCU analytics thread parsing csv databases from the Department of Education in Python and graphing it with R using ggplot.

The HBCU Analytics Thread

Ok, I have been doing the "Rate This HBCU" thread for about two months now. I pull a lot of data from a database the Department of Education has. So I got the thought of pulling in some bulk data and comparing all HBCUs and the results are pretty interesting. I am going to drop the graphs here...

www.thecoli.com