I only skimmed the article, but would creating something similar to the homestead act, but with regards to low population residential areas be a workable solution? Population dispersal seems like an interesting topic.
I trained a least-squares linear regression model to predict the 'sharability' of a given sale using n-gram feature hashing on data I scraped, applied weights and normalized by percentile, from social media sites.
It's built using Huginn[0], Azure ML[1], and Wordpress.
If anyone has any suggestions to improve the model, or really anything else, please feel free to comment or drop me an email at [email protected]
The skimlinks JS code automatically rewrites any links within their affiliate system, including amazon. I only suggested it because you'd only need to copy/paste a few lines of code to rewrite everything.