Every data engineer knows the struggle: finding a project that's both technically impressive and genuinely useful. Today I'll walk you through AfriData Pipeline — a production-grade ETL system that extracts economic data for all 54 African countries, loads it into a DuckDB analytical warehouse, and serves an interactive dashboard.
No paid APIs. No cloud services required. Just Python, DuckDB, and free public data.
Why This Project?
Africa's economy is growing fast, but finding clean, consolidated economic data is surprisingly hard. The World Bank has an amazing free API with 16,000+ indicators — but raw API responses need serious engineering to become useful.
This project demonstrates:
