A company called Unacast, a spinoff of the Tidal music service, collects location data from app partners and uses it to analyze people’s movements.[1]

The Unacast data is normally proprietary, but they have graciously agreed to make their data available for free for COVID-19 research through the AWS Data Exchange.[2]

The Unacast data is one of the factors in the small-area projections from PolicyLab.[3]

References

  1. 1. Walle T. The Unacast Social Distancing Scoreboard - Methodology. Unacast; link (Accessed 2020-05-16 21:00)
  2. 2. Unacast. COVID19 Social Distancing Grades. AWS Data Exchange; link
  3. 3. Small-Area Projections of COVID-19 Transmission in the United States. PolicyLab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute; link (Accessed 2020-05-22 20:45)

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