Passion Projects
Beyond my professional work, I build data tools to explore the things I love. This one turns years of my personal travel calendar into an interactive map of every flight I’ve taken.
✈️ Flight Passport — Personal Flight History Map
The dashboard below is generated from my own flight records. A Python pipeline (flight_history) parses flight events out of my calendar export (.ics), geocodes each airport, and draws the great‑circle route for every leg using Folium/Leaflet. The version shown here is the mobile‑optimized build from July 21, 2026, covering trips from 2006–2027.
Open the full‑screen interactive map ↗
What the map shows
- Passport summary tiles — a headline row totals the journey at a glance: 450 flights, 534,070 miles flown, 58d 21h of airtime, and 100 distinct airports visited.
- Countries visited — a flag strip tallies the 47 countries I’ve touched down in, from Argentina to the United States.
- Routes flown — each line is one flight segment drawn along the great‑circle path between its origin and destination airport (~200 segments across 30+ airlines), fanning out from my U.S. hubs to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
- Airports — sized markers sit at every airport I’ve departed from or arrived at; the larger the dot, the more times I’ve flown through it.
- Airline & aircraft detail — clicking a route or marker opens a popup with the carrier (e.g. United, Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines) and the specific aircraft type flown (e.g. Airbus A350, A321, Boeing widebodies).
- Interactivity — pan, zoom, and click directly in the embedded frame, all drawn over a clean CartoDB “light” basemap so the routes stay the visual focus.
How it’s built
| Stage | Tooling |
|---|---|
| Source data | Calendar export (.ics) of booked/flown flights |
| Parsing & enrichment | Python (pandas); optional airline/aircraft lookup via the aviationstack API |
| Airport geocoding | Airport code → lat/lon reference table |
| Rendering | folium + Leaflet, great‑circle polylines with per‑airline styling |
| Output | Self‑contained interactive HTML (desktop and mobile builds) |
The full source and generator script live in my GitHub repositories.