Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "First inauguration of Donald Trump" in English language version.
The agency still estimates crowd size for its own planning purposes, but does not publicly reveal the figures.
"No matter what we said or did, no one ever felt we gave a fair estimate," U.S. Park Police Maj. J.J. McLaughlin, who had been in charge of coordinating crowd estimates, said in 1996 when the agency confirmed it would no longer count heads.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)This is how the estimate for the 2009 inauguration was reached. Stephen Doig, a professor at Arizona State University, consulted a satellite image released by the company DigitalGlobe and concluded that about 1.1 million people had watched the ceremonies from the National Mall. But the D.C. government, working off the same satellite image and the reports of federal and municipals employees, arrived at a much larger figure: 1.8 million.
To try to settle the question of how many people attended the inauguration ceremony on the National Mall in Washington, DC, we reached out to Keith Still, a professor of crowd science at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. (He analyzed aerial shots of the crowds of both President Obama's 2009 inaugural address and President Trump's for The New York Times.) He concludes that the crowd at the Mall on Friday was roughly one-third the size of President Obama's.
The Times spoke with crowd estimation experts who pegged the number in attendance on Friday at one-third of Obama's 2009 audience, or 600,000 people.
The agency still estimates crowd size for its own planning purposes, but does not publicly reveal the figures.
"No matter what we said or did, no one ever felt we gave a fair estimate," U.S. Park Police Maj. J.J. McLaughlin, who had been in charge of coordinating crowd estimates, said in 1996 when the agency confirmed it would no longer count heads.
The Times spoke with crowd estimation experts who pegged the number in attendance on Friday at one-third of Obama's 2009 audience, or 600,000 people.
To try to settle the question of how many people attended the inauguration ceremony on the National Mall in Washington, DC, we reached out to Keith Still, a professor of crowd science at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. (He analyzed aerial shots of the crowds of both President Obama's 2009 inaugural address and President Trump's for The New York Times.) He concludes that the crowd at the Mall on Friday was roughly one-third the size of President Obama's.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)The agency still estimates crowd size for its own planning purposes, but does not publicly reveal the figures.
"No matter what we said or did, no one ever felt we gave a fair estimate," U.S. Park Police Maj. J.J. McLaughlin, who had been in charge of coordinating crowd estimates, said in 1996 when the agency confirmed it would no longer count heads.
This is how the estimate for the 2009 inauguration was reached. Stephen Doig, a professor at Arizona State University, consulted a satellite image released by the company DigitalGlobe and concluded that about 1.1 million people had watched the ceremonies from the National Mall. But the D.C. government, working off the same satellite image and the reports of federal and municipals employees, arrived at a much larger figure: 1.8 million.