Lanyrd data

When Lanyrd 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

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