Track, Analyze, and Visualize User Group Data at March 2022 IndyAWS

The March 2022 edition of IndyAWS — Indiana’s fastest growing cloud meetup founded in 2017 by Six Feet Up CTO and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community Hero Calvin Hendryx-Parker — featured guest Banjo Obayomi. Banjo is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services, and spoke at IndyAWS about an application he developed to track and visualize user Meetup data.

When Banjo joined AWS late last year, he noticed that Meetup activity appeared to be on a decline — though IndyAWS activity was a noted exception to this trend. He noted that active meetups had declined from 60% of all meetups being active 12 months ago (March 2021-March 2022), to just 37% of all meetups being active in the last three-month period (January-March 2022).

To get to the bottom of this and visualize that data, Banjo created an application that:

• geocodes addresses using Amazon Location Service,
• uses Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda to transform and load the Meetup data; and
• visualizes and shares the stored data using Amazon QuickSight dashboards.

The whole process is automated and orchestrated using the AWS Serverless Application Model.

Watch the presentation:

Links and Resources:

Banjo Obayomi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/banjo-obayomi-a22520a4/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/banjtheman
GitHub: https://github.com/banjtheman

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