7 DIY Data Science Project Ideas Using Your Personal Data
As we get into the field of data science, many times, we have difficulty finding data which is structured and interesting enough. Many a times, if we pick a project on a dataset which doesn’t speak to us personally, the project might be left in between, or completed half-heartedly. The best projects are the ones which keeps you engaged, inspired and motivated through the entire project life cycle.
I generally feel more excited and enthusiastic to share personal-data projects with friends and family, even if it is something as simple as a webapp detecting faces of folks I know, as opposed to getting X accuracy on Y dataset. This simple realization keeps the creative juices flowing and nudges me to provide a more meaningful, impactful and resonating output than a certain X accuracy benchmark on a primitive dataset. As an added benefit, doing project like these makes for far more interesting conversations in a job interview!
In this post, I’ll attempt to list some data exports of personal usage data. Some of the exports here are specific to India, but similar alternative applications exports should exist in other locations.
