User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/Unified Community Platform: The Vision, Purpose, and Process/@comment-5558012-20201113174458/@comment-1807002-20201114221339

Oh, if you are interested it looks like it was a fix? because views (geolocation in this case) were not displaying correctly before and the data engineering team have been working on some fixes to this data recently. So the new inflated number is actually the correct one- in my case.