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How to count event attendance six ways, estimate a crowd from a sample, and read an Attendance Report sponsors will accept.
How to Count Event Attendance: A Complete Guide for Organizers
How to count event attendance six ways, what each method costs, its real error range, and which numbers sponsors and grant officers will actually accept.
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How to Count Event Attendance: A Complete Guide for Organizers
The pillar guide — the hub every other post links back to.
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Practical, honest, and written for your side of the deal.
A practical checklist to audit a festival attendance claim before you report it to a sponsor: method, error range, source, coverage, and defensibility.
How to Read Your Attendance Report
A section-by-section guide to your GateProof Attendance Report: totals, hourly peaks, the occupancy curve, error bars, confidence, and the QR verify page.
How to Estimate Event Attendance From a Sample of Footage
How sampling turns a few hours of gate footage into a full-event attendance estimate — with confidence intervals, coverage scaling, and no fake day totals.
What accuracy means for an event attendance count: MAPE, confidence intervals, panel vs ground truth, and why one headline accuracy number is dishonest.
Why an unverified event attendance number is a liability with sponsors and grant officers, where the usual figures go wrong, and what makes a count trustworthy.
How to Count Event Attendance With a Phone
A step-by-step guide to count event attendance with just a phone on a tripod: where to place it, how to frame the gate, footage settings, and what to avoid.
How to Draw Counting Lines at Event Gates
Where to place a counting line at an event gate, how to set in/out direction, and how to use exclude zones so your attendance count is clean and defensible.