I built an "honest" CS conference ranking: sorted by how good the trip is, not the CORE ranking [P]

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Summary

A researcher built a website that ranks ~540 CORE-ranked CS conferences by destination quality (weather, safety, cost, vibe) instead of academic rank, with filters, deadline exports, and distance-based sorting.

Once the paper is ready, everyone checks the venue location before the acceptance rate anyway. So I built:https://honestcsrankings.org It maps ~540 upcoming CORE-ranked conferences, but ranks them by how good the destination actually is. It factors in: Weather during the actual conference month (using real climate data) Safety (Global Peace Index) Cost (World Bank price levels) Accessibility & "City Vibe" I also added an Upsets tab for A* venues in terrible destinations. Great for your CV, bad for your holiday. You can filter by field, rank, or open deadlines. If you set your home city, you can rank by distance to either maximize that funded long-haul trip or minimize it, your call. You can also export deadlines to .ics and share deep links with coauthors. ICML/ICLR 2027 are missing because they aren't announced yet, and COLM is missing because CORE hasn't ranked it. The long tail of smaller conferences is scraped from WikiCFP, so there will be some errors.
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