The Nicholas Recreation Center is UW-Madison’s most popular gym on-campus. As a result, it is often extremely packed and leads to long wait times.

The Recreation and Wellbeing website offers a live tracker, in which the occupancy of the gym is recorded roughly every hour. I developed an HTML, CSS, and JS app that uses Python web scraping to chart this data over time. It updates as soon as the website data is changed and allows for daily and bi-weekly chart views. I also included functionality for UW’s other gym, The Shell.

This app allows users to determine the best times to go to the gym to avoid wait times.