Shiny a Light on Meetup
Inspiration
Meetup.com has become the website to bring
The Data
Let's dive into the data, which wasΒ collected using the python Scrapy.
- City: Selected 11 different cities across the United States of America.
- Category: There are 24 different categories ranging from film and art to tech and business.
- Group Members: The number of members in each meetup group.
- Group Reviews: The amount of reviews the group received.
- Past Meetings: The number of past meetings held.
- Upcoming Meetings: The posted number meetings coming up.
- Upcoming Meeting Price: The price of the meetup group (if any)
- Upcoming Meeting RSVPs: Β The number of people RSVP'ed to the upcoming meeting
- Length of Group Description: The amount of words used to describe the details of the meetup group
Who's Popular?Β
It's easy to find out with using my Shiny app
Some Cities Are Similar and Some Are Not
The largest city in the US, New York City, remains unique among the rest. The number of members, a shown below on a log scale, have very different distributions than any other city.
We got the P-Value to prove it. Therefore, you are
Check it out and you will find other similarities and differences.
The Correlations Make SenseΒ
Interested in an outlier? Then simply touch the point of interest and the group name, it's members and the city will display.
Insights and Progress Forward
I wanted to create an app that would show trends of meetup groups held across the country. This R Shiny app provides the user interactive tools to explore their interests and gather information about their city. There were several other features scraped from the website. I plan to include even more interactive plots to display theses parameters. Go check out the app and get a feel for Meetups that interest you.Β