[Air-l] Fw: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #78 - 3 msgs
Jeremy W. Crampton
jcrampton at gsu.edu
Mon Aug 13 08:40:07 PDT 2001
This cost is one reason why we are working on a model which will predict
Internet access across a locality. Our focus is on GIS for policymaking
tools. I will talk about this at the conference, and hopefully get some
good suggestions (we'll only have preliminary data unfortunately).
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Jeremy W. Crampton
President, NACIS http://www.nacis.org
& http://monarch.gsu.edu/jcrampton/
The reason for this paucity is, of course, that sizing Internet user
populations is an incredibly expensive and time-consuming process. A
really interesting doctoral thesis to read would be one which took
apart and compared the various methodologies as a way of explaining
the wide divergences in results. Or: data points are memes, and they
travel, but in so doing they obscure their origins; call it a fetish
for numbers.
cheers
Bram
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/ Bram Dov Abramson
/ babramson at telegeography.com
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