Exploring Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
Today, Google released a series of PDF reports that use their tracked location data to " chart movement trends over time by geography [and] across different categories of places". Report contents Reports can be downloaded for a specific country/region (currently 131 are supported). Within the report, time series charts display mobility trends (% compared to baseline) across 6 location categories. The date range available for the first round of reports are Feb 16 2020 - March 29 2020. Screenshot of report contents. Image from Google Most of the countries I looked at had a country-level overview at the beginning and then region specific charts. However, I noticed that South Korea only had the country-level overview. Within the report, it's noted that a region will be left out if there aren't statistically significant levels of data available. Also, one country that does not have a report at all is China. I can understand why this is - my guess is that there is...