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[Joshua Pritt]

You would be able to do this with GIS if you had some sort of "nerds per
capita" data.
Perhaps there's some info to be found in the ESRI census data?

http://www.arcgis.com/features/

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/community-analyst

http://www.esri.com/software/businessanalyst




On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:51 PM, john lunger <justj1915 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would also be so interested in the algorithm as well.
>
> Carolyn Lunger
> Hayhackers
>
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>   On Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:31 PM, "shirley at velochicdesign.com" <
> shirley at velochicdesign.com> wrote:
>  Good morning everyone,
>
> List newbie here, part of a group getting a makerspace up and going in
> Birmingham, AL.
>
> Am wondering if any knows of or of anyone developing an algorithm or
> equation to predict a membership size range based on city or metro area
> population (or other factors)? Or from experience, has developed some
> simple rules of thumb? I'm writing our business plan and want, if at all
> possible to know if our predicted membership numbers that we're aiming for
> are realistic. (currently a business school iS student - who cheerully
> obsesses about such things)
>
> I'm prepared to slog through the current list on hackerspaces.org and do
> the analysis, but being lazy, wanted to see if anyone else had done it
> first. :)
>
> For context, B'ham AL is a spread out smear of a city, pop. 212,000,
> within a municipally fractured greater metro area of 1.1 million.
>
> Shirley Hicks
> shirley at velochicdesign.com
> hickssr at uab.edu
> www.redmountainmakers.org
> Birmingham, AL
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