https://github.com/cedmax/lanyrd-data
📊 javascript confs data collection
https://github.com/cedmax/lanyrd-data
community conferences javascript
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📊 javascript confs data collection
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/cedmax/lanyrd-data
- Owner: cedmax
- Created: 2017-11-11T17:36:21.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-05-10T17:43:07.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-02T01:22:00.988Z (about 2 years ago)
- Topics: community, conferences, javascript
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 1.06 MB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 1
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- Readme: Readme.md
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# Lanyrd data
When [Lanyrd](http://lanyrd.com/) was acquired by Eventbrite at the end of 2013 they already peaked. I think it was around 2012, just a couple of years after their launch.
When the acquisition happened, a lot of people hoped the parent company would have continued investing in the platform, which was a really good collector for tech conferences and such, but awfully this didn't quite happen.
After 4 years the relevance of Lanyrd in the community is close to zero, and on top of it the site seems to be in permanent lockdown.
Before it's too late, I decided to collect at least the data relevant to the front end community (mainly focusing on conferences and speakers)
Next step are a little blurry (even tho I know I want to analyse this data), but they might involve a gender rapresentation analysis (some quick tests suggested me we are talking about 85% male speakers, if you are curious), geographical and temporal distribution etc.
## Method
1) Fetched the all the events with the topic `Javascript` from [Lanyrd.com](http://lanyrd.com/topics/javascript)
2) Fetched the data (list of speakers, date and location) of each event
3) Listing (and deduping) who presented in an event with more than 5 speakers (magic number to determine a conference and exclude meetups)
4) Wip