Maclean's has published some interesting data visualizations based on reports from
Google, who themselves have used anonymized location data from their vast pool of users to report on how well the world is doing at staying home to avoid COVID-19.
All data is from a five-week period between January 3rd and February 6th of this year; the author at Maclean's used the data sets from North America specifically.
Here then, are the five Canadian provinces and US states with the highest reduction in mobility for recreation and retail—defined by Google as "places like restaurants, cafes, shopping centres, theme parks, museums, libraries, and movie theatres":
Quebec - 70% mobility reduction
District of Columbia - 64%
Vermont - 62%
New York - 62%
Ontario - 59%
And here are the provinces and states with the lowest reduction in mobility for the same categories:
South Dakota - 35% mobility reduction
Nebraska - 34%
Nova Scotia - 33%
Mississippi - 32%
Arkansas - 29%
Overall Canada's retail and recreational mobility reduction was 59% while the USA's was 47%. Given that Google's reporting period is long gone, how do these numbers compare with what you've seen where you live?
Sources:
Google via
Maclean's
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Andrew Currie has been blogging about mobile phones since 2001, smartphones (depending on how you define them) since 2002 and smartwatches since 2014.
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