I counted all of the yurts in Mongolia using machine learning

“In total I found 172,689 yurts with a prediction score of greater than 40%.”

One person with no ML background labeled 10,000 yurts, trained a model and counted 172,689 across Mongolia. The imagery came from scraped Google Maps tiles. About 60% of Ulaanbaatar’s population lives in ger districts. It is a census done on a hobby budget.