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I haven't looked at what Meetup has available for an API but I've rarely ever seen its data used as a way to find out about a city, even though it's a great way to…",[95,103,110,117],{"value":96,"source":81,"evidence":97},"Biased toward large population centres; needs normalising",[98,99],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},{"id":100,"by":101,"text":102},"12402894","baccheion","Usually (taken from erf\u002Ferror based on sample size), something grows proportional to the square root of the sample size. If using raw sample sizes, you can apply a square root to…",{"value":104,"source":81,"evidence":105},"Meetup is a poor data source for interest-based questions",[106],{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"12402166","timothycrosley","I think meetup.com is a fairly poor data source for these kind of questions - even if the data was normalized. Interested in Coffee? 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