An Exercise In Code Re-use: Another Cycling Mileage Log This project was an exercise in re-using code from an existing project. Back in July, I built a mileage tracking system for the Trek Century Challenge (TCC), from the exercise tracking app Strava. The goal for the TCC was to ride 1,000 miles during the month […]
$aving with Beautiful Soup
Buying a house is expensive. It’s our first stab at it, so I’m excited and a little anxious, but also mindful enough to try to save as much money as possible. With different lenders all offering different interest rates (that can change daily) and then quoting you a rate higher than their lowest advertised even […]
A Flask app built with Python to help people discover top sources of plant-based nutrition. The idea for plant-based-buds.herokuapp.com came out of not knowing of any places to quickly search solely for top plant-based sources of the nutrients that the body needs. I have been vegetarian for over 3 years now and vegan for the […]
~A PyBites Code Challenge~ The challenge at hand, from PyBites, was to analyze data from Kaggle regarding medals awarded at the Olympic Games from 1896-2014. The one requirement was to use a pandas dataframe in order to analyze the data. I love watching the Olympics, and was bummed that Tokyo 2020 has been pushed back […]
A cycling mileage log. This project goes back to July 2020 and the Trek Century Challenge on the popular exercise tracking app Strava. The challenge ran for the entire month of July and had 3 goals for total miles ridden: 100, 500, and 1,000. The best reward (Coffee Mug!) unlocked after only 100 miles, but, […]
Travel Visualizations with Python.
Where have you been? I am a big fan of traveling and experiencing new places and cultures. The idea for this project came from a desire to be able to visualize places that I have visited both in my home country (USA) and throughout the world. Also, I wanted to be able to compare my […]