[MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Nik Honeysett
I have a friend who runs a large, free public-access wifi network in a park. The network requires no authentication. There is modest promotion of the availability of free-wifi. He’s looking to estimate the total number of visitors to the park from the number of unique clients he sees on his

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Max Evjen
Agreed with Leonard, your friend will need to perform some visitor studies to be sure. Best, Max > On Dec 1, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Leonard Steinbach wrote: > > It would seem to me to be such a myriad of factors that one needs much more > baseline data to make such an

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Leonard Steinbach
It would seem to me to be such a myriad of factors that one needs much more baseline data to make such an extrapolation, eg. increases in young people when school is not in session; are there persons who use the park as a pedestrian thoroughfare to/from work. Are there running trails where for

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Bruce Wyman
(huh, it looks like I use my personal email address for this listerv, this was my original message) Nik — It’s worth reaching out to these folks: >. They may be able to give you

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Bruce Wyman
Nik — One more bit of esoterica. If you’re using Cisco equipment, their mobility services for tracking folks. To work around the spoofing of IP addresses that happens with some devices (iOS, that’s you) you can mitigate this to some degree by setting “Enable Locally Administered MAC

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Nik Honeysett
Sina - that took 3 minutes? You’re awesome. Many thanks... Bruce - this is kind of thing I’m looking for - many thanks. Obviously, my friend is me. The accepted park visitorship is 12 million - no idea where this comes from. Institutional attendance (museums and zoo) reports in at about 6.5

Re: [MCN-L] Tapping the MCN Brain Trust

2016-12-01 Thread Sina Bahram
Way closer to 8 to 10, once I finished :P I have a question, if you have visitorship numbers from other sources, is it possible to simply find out the error windows on those numbers? You mentioned an event with 350K people. Hopefully there are other such events that have 'supposed" numbers

[MCN-L] 2016 SIG Chairs Elections

2016-12-01 Thread Eric Longo
Dear MCNers: It's that time of year again. From December 1-15, 2016, we invite you to vote in the second annual election of our Special Interest Group (SIG) Chairs. Please take a moment to review the slate of candidates and vote for the leadership of SIGs you are most interested in. The roles of