Add information about prior acceptance rates

[tnaumann]

It may be nice to see information on the /conference pages about prior acceptance rates. This is admittedly orthogonal to the date-oriented nature of the site, but in like with other features requests to add information about the conferences such as H5 index. It would also make aideadlin.es a valuable place to go for conference information after the submission deadline has passed. There are a number of places where this information has been consolidated previously, e.g. https://github.com/lixin4ever/Conference-Acceptance-Rate.

[omarsar]

Hi @tnaumann this is an interesting idea and good metadata to have. Let me take a closer look at how this could work in terms of gathering and then maintaining that data. I will come back with some thoughts. Thanks.

[tnaumann]

Just wanted to follow up here to see if there were any questions about how to gather and maintain the data. Thanks!

[omarsar]

Thanks @tnaumann.

My thoughts so far:

• It feels like it's definitely orthogonal to what we have currently.
• I think it could be an interesting new category of information that we could add to the conference pages.
• We could experiment and provide this information as an experimental feature (borrow inspiration from Papers with Code dataset pages; see below for example)
• Before experimenting, it's important to figure out if this information can be automatically pulled or how we plan to maintain it. @tnaumann what are your thoughts on this?
• Currently, we don't have bandwidth on the team to build this out. Do you plan to work on it, @tnaumann?

@a-nau As you are currently working on improving the conference pages, I would love to get your thoughts on this feature?

[a-nau]

Hi @tnaumann and @omarsar,

I like the idea. I think adding a mini chart as you suggested @omarsar to every conference page would provide most value, since probably many people visit the page looking for a venue. This information can help finding the right conference. But if the data is there of course also aggregate overviews as in the mentioned repo are possible.

Regarding the data, I think a reliable and easy to access source would be great, since I expect less community support for such detailed information.

[omarsar]

Thanks for the feedback @a-nau.

Let me put together some mockups of how this type of information might look on the website. I have some ideas already.

We can then try to build an experimental feature displaying this info and see if it's of any use to researchers.

@a-nau I prefer we work on the calendar feature first and then we can explore this idea a bit. I know you also had some ideas initially that are related to this.