Looking at a city I know (Chicago) calling these the “quietest” places is just silly. Sure, these may be somewhat quiet places (on occasion), and are relatively

Looking at a city I know (Chicago) calling these the “quietest” places is just silly. Sure, these may be somewhat quiet places (on occasion), and are relatively quiet for their proximity to downtown, but they are nowhere close to the quietest, as in, places that are the most quiet. Just another example of misuse of superlatives. > Next, we identified which parks and nature spots are considered quiet by those who visit them. We did this by searching visitors’ reviews for mentions of ‘quiet’, ‘relaxing’, ‘tranquil’, ‘calm’, and ‘peaceful’. This gave us a ‘Quiet Score’, a metric we created based on three factors: the share of each location’s reviews that mention these words; the location’s average visitor rating; and its popularity, and whether that impacts its peacefulness (a place with many reviews may be more crowded and less peaceful, while one with only a few reviews may not accurately represent the typical visitor experience). The higher the ‘Quiet Score’, the more peaceful the place is. In total, we looked into over 3,000 parks and nature spots across 245 cities. Ok so they did sentiment analysis of reviews of parks in cities. Maybe “popular quiet places” wasn’t as catchy of a title.