CS Rankings excludes important CS research from ECE/EE deptartments

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Rankings are intensely popular and influential. While we might wish for a world without rankings, wishing will not make rankings go away. Given this state of affairs, it makes sense to aim for a ranking system that is meaningful and transparent. Unfortunately, the most influential rankings right now are those from US News and World Report, which is entirely reputation-based and relies on surveys sent to department heads and directors of graduate studies. By contrast, CSRankings is entirely metrics-based: it weighs departments by their presence at the most prestigious publication venues. This approach is intended to be both incentive-aligned (faculty already aim to publish at top venues) and difficult to game, since publishing in such conferences is difficult. It is admittedly bean-counting, but its intent is to "count the right beans." It is also entirely transparent; all code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/emeryberger/CSRankings under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (note: this means you may not distribute anything built from CSrankings' code or data).