Wondering about the US bias of our top tier conferences, my goal was to visualize the actual state of affairs. A couple of hours of plotly coding later, I managed to create a nice visual map of the top tier conferences over the last 10 years.

Software engineering is the most inclusive as it moves a lot and spreads geographically. Systems and architecture tries and moves somewhat. Security is abysmal, only one of the top 4 conferences moves, the others remain put or mostly put.

Adjust the code at will, it requires plotly and geopy:

apt install python3-plotly python3-geopy

You also need numpy and a couple of other basic packages that should be installed if you ever ran Python on your system.

If you want to check out the visual map, check out my website or have a look at the static image below: