“Nerds love Orlando,” according to public relations materials I received this week from the city of Orlando, Fla. But as Orlando seeks to rebrand itself as “a high tech hub for innovation,” it faces a lot of competition.

In 2010, Chicago proclaimed its intention to become “the top destination for technology business.” In December, Citibank joined with The Huffington Post to declare that “you might be living in the next Silicon Valley” if you live in Chicago — or Miami, or Cincinnati or Chattanooga. Slate tracked “next Silicon Valleys” in 2013 and profiled two dozen cities that had been described as such, including Las Vegas, which received the distinction from Slate itself.

For its part, Orlando brags it was named a “promising tech hub to watch” in 2014 by Techie.com. If you hadn’t heard of Techie.com, don’t worry, neither had I; the tech site, based in South Bend, Ind., folded a few months ago, but not before it awarded the “promising tech hub” distinction to Orlando along with Minneapolis, Detroit, Champaign-Urbana, Ill., and Sioux Falls, S.D.

The hard data does not bear out the proposition that nerds love Orlando. They do not love Las Vegas, and they are lukewarm about Chicago. Research from the Brookings Institution, based on figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, tells a rather more conventional story: Nerds love Silicon Valley. Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States, San Jose, Calif., ranks first in “advanced industry” employment as a share of total employment. Orlando ranks 73rd — and places 78th in advanced industry employment growth from 2010 to 2013.