Private Dashboard / Data Visualization

Turning flight data into visual stories.
A private analytics dashboard built for a frequent-flying businessman who wanted more than spreadsheets.

■ Private project — dashboard not publicly accessible
Explore Features ↓ How It Works

⚠ Raw Data, Zero Insights

  • → Hundreds of flights tracked in flat spreadsheets. No visual overview.
  • → Impossible to spot travel patterns, favorite routes, or seasonal habits at a glance.
  • → No way to see total distance covered, countries visited, or aircraft types flown.
  • → Existing flight tracker apps are generic — they don't surface the insights that matter to a business traveler.
  • → Data sitting unused. No stories, no patterns, no discoveries.

✓ Track My Flights

  • → Cockpit-style gauges for key metrics: total flights, distance, countries, airlines.
  • → Interactive world map showing every route flown with frequency-based thickness.
  • → Pattern recognition: busiest months, weekday distribution, flight gap analysis.
  • → Auto-generated insights: distance records, seat preferences, aircraft encounters, travel streaks.
  • → Every flight becomes a data point in a personal travel story.
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Built for a Traveler Who Wants Answers

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Cockpit Gauges

Five animated cockpit-style gauges showing total flights, airports, countries, airlines, and total distance at a glance. Numbers that tell a story.

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Interactive Route Map

Full-screen Leaflet map with every route drawn as an arc. Line thickness reflects frequency. Click any route for details. See the world you've covered.

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Auto-Generated Insights

The dashboard analyzes your data and surfaces records: longest flight, shortest hop, distance span, aircraft types flown, and how many times you've circled the globe.

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Travel Patterns

Year-over-year comparisons, busiest travel months, weekday distribution, seat preferences, and flight gap analysis. Your habits, visualized.

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Encounter Detection

Discovers when you've flown the same route on the same day as a previous flight, or flown on the same aircraft registration twice. Rare but fascinating.

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Collapsible Dashboard

Cards collapse to show a preview with smooth animations. State persists via localStorage. Optimized for mobile with touch-friendly controls.

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How It Was Built

01

Understand the Traveler

The client is a frequent-flying businessman. He had years of flight data in spreadsheets but no way to see the bigger picture. He wanted answers, not just numbers.

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Design the Cockpit

Inspired by aviation instruments. Dark theme with cyan accents. Gauges for quick overview, a world map for spatial context, and cards for deep dives. Everything feels like a cockpit display.

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Build the Intelligence Layer

The dashboard doesn't just display data — it analyzes it. Pattern recognition, statistical comparisons, encounter detection, and gap analysis all run client-side in pure JavaScript.

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Polish for Real Use

Collapsible sections with persistent state. Mobile-optimized layout. Smooth animations. Touch-friendly controls. A dashboard that works on the businessman's phone between flights.

"I had years of flight data in a spreadsheet and never looked at it. Now I open the dashboard and discover things about my own travel patterns I never knew. It turned dead data into something fascinating."

— The Client

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Technology

Vanilla JavaScript CSS3 Custom Properties Leaflet.js Chart.js SVG Gauges localStorage Responsive Design Client-Side Analytics

Data has stories.
You just need the right lens.

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