<div dir="ltr">You would be able to do this with GIS if you had some sort of "nerds per capita" data.<div>Perhaps there's some info to be found in the ESRI census data?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.arcgis.com/features/">http://www.arcgis.com/features/</a><br>

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</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM, john lunger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justj1915@yahoo.com" target="_blank">justj1915@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

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<span>I would also be so interested in the algorithm as well.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">

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 <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:31 PM, "<a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a>> wrote:<br>

 </font> </div>  <div>Good morning everyone,<br><br>List newbie here, part of a group getting a makerspace up and going in<br>Birmingham, AL.<br><br>Am wondering if any knows of or of anyone developing an algorithm or<br>

equation to predict a membership size range based on city or metro area<br>population (or other factors)? Or from experience, has developed some<br>simple rules of thumb? I'm writing our business plan and want, if at all<br>

possible to know if our predicted membership numbers that we're aiming for<br>are
 realistic. (currently a business school iS student - who cheerully<br>obsesses about such things)<br><br>I'm prepared to slog through the current list on <a href="http://hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a> and do<br>

the analysis, but being lazy, wanted to see if anyone else had done it<br>first. :)<br><br>For context, B'ham AL is a spread out smear of a city, pop. 212,000,<br>within a municipally fractured greater metro area of 1.1 million.<br>

<br>Shirley Hicks<br><a href="mailto:shirley@velochicdesign.com" target="_blank">shirley@velochicdesign.com</a><br><a href="mailto:hickssr@uab.edu" target="_blank">hickssr@uab.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.redmountainmakers.org" target="_blank">www.redmountainmakers.org</a><br>

Birmingham, AL<br><br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">Discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>

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