Occupancy & Percentiles

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A toy app that simulates daily occupancy and shows why p50, p85, p95 and p99 give very different absolute answers from the same data. The simulation runs in R, inside your browser, via webR — no server required.

Booting R (downloading webR…)

Simulation inputs

Capacity pool (max possible occupants)

Average occupancy rate (0–1)

Day-to-day variability (0 = steady, 1 = wild) 0.40

Simulated days

Random seed

Results

Run the simulation to see how the percentile you pick changes the answer.