May 26, 2020
Ryan Alyn Porter
Mobility data sources
Amazon Web Services provides an easy way to find and use COVID-19 data in the cloud. Often for free.
A spinoff of the Tidal music service, Unacast collects location data from app partners and uses it to analyze people’s movements.
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A model aimed at local forecasts projects a rapid spread of coronavirus in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, based on mobility, population density, age, insurance status, smoking prevalence, and weather.
Miami-Dade County started to give up on social distancing even before it started reopening. And South Florida currently has one of the lowest success rates of anywhere in the US, according to a company that’s analyzing location data to determine how many contacts each person has.