Replication Guide — Strategic Nonviolent Campaign (2025–2029): Protest Data Visualizations (Jan–Aug 2025)

This replication guide documents the full procedure for generating daily U.S. protest attendance graphs from the Crowd Counting Consortium U.S. Protest Event Data, 2025– (Harvard Dataverse, DOI: 10.7910/DVN/RI9JFU). It details data acquisition, preprocessing steps, analytical methods, visualization procedures, and validation instructions for the period January 1–August 31, 2025. Significant protest events annotated in the graphs include the Hands Off Nationwide Protest (April 5, 2025) and the No Kings Nationwide Protest (June 14, 2025). The guide also includes an AI Transparency Notice describing the role of ChatGPT (GPT-5) in assisting with data processing, visualization code, and text preparation, with final verification by the author