Project ยท 2026
Restaurant Stats
A personal data pipeline that consolidates restaurant spending across Bank of America, Chase, Capital One, and Venmo from PDF statements, then computes per-restaurant stats: visits, total spend, average ticket, first and last visit, and cards used.
- Python
- pandas
- PDF parsing
Problem
My dining spending was scattered across four financial sources (Bank of America, Chase, Capital One, and Venmo), each with its own PDF statement format. I wanted a single view of where I actually eat: how often, how much, and on which card, without uploading years of financial statements to some third party.
Approach
A three-stage Python pipeline (extract to build to dashboard):
- Extract ingests raw credit-card and Venmo PDF statements.
- Build detects and canonicalizes dining transactions across the four different statement formats.
- Dashboard produces per-restaurant analytics.
Financial input data stays fully local and git-ignored.
Highlights
- Handles four distinct statement formats and reconciles them into one canonical set of dining transactions.
- Computes per-restaurant stats: number of visits, total spend, average ticket size, first and last visit dates, and which cards were used where.
- Keeps all financial input local and out of version control.