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 <lensteinb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > some fitness devices are in play? You get the idea. > > With this limited information, I would suggest a random survey of persons > in the park at various times/uses to ascertain wifi use compared with > visitors, compare that with connections seen to try to model > extrapolation. Short of that level of effort, I might see if there is a > way to photograph wide enough swarths the park at various times to do > person counts which could be mapped against unique clients. > > I know this seems a litte old-schoo/brute force. > > This also presumes your friend has contacted those who manage wifi access > at other (analogous enough) parks to see if they have made such studies. > > Hope this helps or stirs the conversation. > >> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Nik Honeysett <nhoneys...@bpoc.org> wrote: >> >> 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 wifi >> network. Despite the fact that a significant proportion of visitors have >> their smartphone with them, only a certain percentage will appear on the >> network due to a variety of factors including phone settings and a user >> checking to see whether there’s wifi available. >> >> What percentage of the total visitor number does the MCN brain trust think >> he will see on his network? Or maybe put another way, what percentage of >> the population looks for free wifi? >> >> -nik >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Nik Honeysett | Chief Executive Officer >> BALBOA PARK ONLINE COLLABORATIVE >> >> M (805) 402-3326 P (619) 331-1974 E nhoneys...@bpoc.org <mailto: >> nhoneys...@bpoc.org> >> 2131 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA 92101 >> >> A technology collaboration that connects audiences to art, culture and >> science. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer >> Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l >> >> The MCN-L archives can be found at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l@mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://mcn.edu/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/mcn-l@mcn.edu/
