"Meetup.com City Finder" where people with the same hobby can search the world's ideal city nearby

ByHoria Varlan

One of the local community servicesMeetupThere is a service called Japan, which is a popular service in the world although its name recognition is low in Japan. In Meetup, a lot of communities of groups are created by users, and by participating in that group they will be able to communicate with people in the group, but people who have a common hobby from groups registered in Meetup Services that can search cities that are perfect for themselves, such as living many "Meetup.com City Finder"Has appeared.

Find your ideal city from meetup.com group topics
https://cole-maclean.github.io/meetupcityfinder/

Meetup.com City Finder is a service created using Meetup API and click on the above URL to use. The displayed page is already searched with the keyword "data science", and to the right of the screen is displayed the top 10 cities where many groups related to "data science" are registered.


When I click New York in the top 10 in the city, the keywords of the group with many registrants including New York are displayed right under. According to developer Mr. Call McLean, New York seems to come into the top ten in many keyword search.


Also, if you select a city from the earth displayed on the left side of the screen and click on it, the keywords of the group with the large number of registered people in that city are displayed on the right of the screen. There seems to be many groups related to languages ​​such as "language exchange" "culture exchange" "english language" in Tokyo.


To reset the search keyword, just click on the "data science" tag.


Once you understand how to use it, I will try searching with "game (game)".


Many groups related to "game" existed in Madrid, Spain. When I thought that it was impossible to move to Spain as expected, I found "Nagoya" ranked in 5th place. If you go to Nagoya, it seems easy to find people and communities with common hobbies.


There are many groups registered with Meetup, and you can find communities of various genres. For example, when it says "If there is a community that speaks Japanese at a moving destination", it searches for "japanese language". Besides Japanese cities like Tokyo and Osaka, countries such as New York, London, Seoul and Toronto were displayed.


Furthermore, it is also possible to narrow down the search by increasing the number of keywords. If you search "japanese food" without erasing "japanese language", tags will be added. In the rankings, cities such as Seoul and Toronto are gone, Singapore and Vancouver ranked in instead.


People who like "pokemon go (Pokemon Go)" looks good if they move San Francisco · Vancouver · Austin · Sydney.


Groups of sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, etc. appear to concentrate in the United States such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco.


If you want a friend who likes to drink together on the move destination, you can search "pub crawl" or "drinking". There seems to be a lot of groups where drinkers gather in Paris · Hong Kong · Tokyo.