Applying Location-based Big Data for Analyzing Global Events The 2025 Boston Marathon was a spectacular display of endurance, drawing over 30,000 participating runners and hundreds of thousands of spectators lining the 26.2-mile course from Hopkinton to Boylston Street. Taking place on Monday, April 21, 2025—the traditional Patriots&
About Location-Based Visits and AI Models for Usage Intelligence for Parks, Business Districts, Event Venues Municipal agencies are increasingly turning to GovTech solutions, geospatial artificial intelligence (AI), and location-based data to build smarter, more resilient cities. However, procuring the right technology requires rigorous vetting. At CityData, we welcome the hard
Estimated and Observed Monthly Visitation for 2022 & Regional Performance: An Analytical Report Executive Summary * Objective: This report presents a detailed analytical model and the resulting estimated monthly visitation counts for 99 parks and trails within the Des Moines Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the 2022 calendar year. * Data Availability
The New Science of Transforming Mobility Telemetry into Real-World Event Intelligence For decades, urban planners, event organizers, and emergency management directors operated in a world of educated guesses. Understanding human movement traditionally relied on a patchwork of analog methodologies: manual turnstile clicks, scattered ticket sales, post-event surveys, and aerial photography.
Authored by Dr. Pieter Fourie with Team CityData.AI
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The Ultimate Guide to the World’s Most Epic Highs and Lows If you are reading this, you probably have an itch that only a pair of worn-in hiking boots and thin mountain air can scratch. We’ve all seen the standard travel brochures, but at CityData, we believe the
The Executive Playbook for Rescuing High-Value Customer Engagements Introduction: The High Stakes of Enterprise and Government Churn In the complex ecosystems of enterprise and government contracting, the loss of a customer—or churn—is not a simple line item on a balance sheet. It is a seismic event with compounding
Establishing a Baseline for Park Visits The estimation of park visitation necessitates a foundational understanding of each park's intrinsic capacity and appeal. The nine park and recreation assets in Kenosha County managed by the county system are not homogenous; they represent a diverse portfolio of recreational infrastructure, natural
CityData captures, measures, and estimates crowd sizes for large events like fireworks celebrations, farmers markets, music concerts, sporting events, religious events, political rallies and protests. CityData offers two solutions for estimating crowd size. Solution 1: CitySensor CitySensor is a ruggedized hardware sensor connected to an online dashboard for accurate real-time
CityData has studied, analyzed and evaluated the universe of computer vision AI models so you don't need to! 1. Executive Summary The accurate and automated estimation of crowd sizes, particularly in scenarios involving thousands of individuals captured from aerial platforms such as drones, helicopters, or satellites, presents a
A hybrid spatio-temporal model for hourly place visitation estimation in geographically-distributed parks and public spaces by leveraging multi-source data and confidence weighting Abstract Accurate, fine-grained visitation data is crucial for park management, urban planning, and resource allocation. Traditional methods, such as manual counting or permanent sensor installation, are often costly