The selected places and events demonstrate the alignment of the reconstructed hourly population data with real-world figures. Most examples show a strong match, though some discrepancies exist. This selection aims to provide an intuitive overview of the new dataset. Please contact Huan Ning (
hning6@emory.edu) if you have other interesting cases or comments!
New York City Central Park
New York, NY (2022)
Reported daily visitor: 115,000
World Catfish Festival
Belzoni, MS (Apr 2, 2022)
Reported visitor: ~9,000
Benson Mule Days
Benson, NC (Sep 24, 2022)
Reported visitor: 20,000-30,000
Kolache Festival
Caldwell, TX (Sep 10, 2022)
Reported visitor: >18,000
West Cape May Christmas Parade
West Cape May, NJ (Dec 3, 2022)
Reported visitor: >10,000
Far Hills Race Meeting
Far Hills, NJ (Oct 15, 2022)
Reported visitor: ~30,000
Peanut Proud Festival
Blakely, GA (Mar 26, 2022)
Reported historical visitor: 8,000-10,000
Alderson 4th of July
Alderson, WV (Jul 4, 2022)
Reported historical visitor: ~15,000
Guilford Fair
Guilford, CT (Sep 16-18, 2022)
Expected visitor: ~20,000
Appomattox Railroad Festival
Appomattox, VA (Oct 7-9, 2022)
2024 expected visitor: 25,000
Gloucester Daffodil Festival
Gloucester, VA (Apr 2-3, 2022)
Reported visitor: >25,000
Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire 2022
Bonney Lake, WA (August weekends, 2022)
Estimated daily visitors: ~20,000
Rolling Loud Miami 2022
Miami Gardens, FL (Jul 23-25, 2022)
Reported visitor: ~200,000
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Question: the Hard Rock Stadium has 65,000 seats only, contradict againt the hourly population ~160,000. Maybe audience phone using pattern is very different from the high school anchors.