Blog posts

Traffic Monitoring REST API

By Marco Caloba

I completed a project centered on building a Django Rest Framework-powered REST API for a road traffic monitoring dashboard. The API manages road segments, capturing crucial data such as average vehicle speed, traffic intensity characterization, and timestamps of recordings. The project includes features like interactive API documentation, data loading into the database, user management via Django Admin, and unit testing.

Daily Quotes

By Marco Caloba

In the past few years, my daily reading habit has evolved into a practice of creating comprehensive book summaries, capturing key insights, quotes, and my personal reflections. These notes represent my commitment to personal growth and being the best version of myself. However, with time, it has become challenging to recall all the valuable teachings I've encountered. To address this, I've centralised my notes and quotes in my Notion's second brain. Taking it a step further, I connected a Python script to Notion's API and seamlessly integrate these personal notes into daily quote emails. This automation not only provides convenient access to motivational quotes but also serves as a periodic reminder of my own insights and reflections.

Kobo to Notion

By Marco Caloba

In today's fast-paced world, personal development is a key focus for many individuals seeking growth and self-improvement. To ensure that I extract the maximum value from each book I read, I began compiling book summaries in Notion. I used to rely on a website to access my Kobo highlights, and manually copy and past them into Notion. Determined to automate this process, I made this Python script that allows me to seamlessly send my Kobo highlights directly to my Notion, saving time and effort while preserving the essence of my reading experience.

The Go-Giver

By Marco Caloba

Through the captivating story of Joe, readers are introduced to five fundamental laws that challenge conventional notions of success and highlight the importance of building genuine connections, cultivating a giving mindset, and creating win-win situations. This engaging book offers practical insights applicable to various aspects of life, encouraging readers to embrace a new paradigm that prioritizes generosity, compassion, and making a positive impact.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

By Marco Caloba

Dale Carnegie's renowned work stands as a timeless self-help masterpiece, serving as a comprehensive guide to living. Its central concept revolves around the transformative power of personal change in shaping the behavior of others. It teaches principles to understand people better, be more likeable, improve your relationships, win people over, and have an impact on their behavior through leadership.

Building a Second Brain

By Marco Caloba

We have unprecedented access to global knowledge, but it often overwhelms us instead of empowering. A Second Brain is a personal knowledge management system that organizes ideas, notes, and creative work across devices, providing confidence for important projects and goals. Build a Second Brain to unleash your ideas and make meaningful improvements in work and life.

ElectroPy

By Marco Caloba

This is a Python program that reads an excel file with information from eletrophysiology recordings on brain slices, analyses it and exports the required parameters in an accessible way. I made it for my girlfriend, who is currently a Neuroscience Masters’ student. She asked for my help to optimise that data’s treatment because the method she used was archaic and very time consuming.

Google Data Analytics Capstone Project

By Marco Caloba

To bring the Google Data Analytics course to a close, Google suggests that each student completes a Capstone Project that exemplifies the technical abilities they have acquired from the course. To do so, I have completed my Capstone Project on the Cyclistic Case Study.

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