ArticleScientific reports2023
Replacing discontinued Big Tech mobility reports: a penetration-based analysis.
Article in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Internet-based Surveillance Systems and Infectious Diseases Prediction: An Updated Review of the Last 10 Years and Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2024Pooled it
- Outfitting the quest for spatial spread of infections: A review of mobility datasets for population health modelling.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Review
- Clustering-based methodology for comparing multi-characteristic epidemiological dynamics with application to COVID-19 epidemiology in Europe.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Diagnosis, and Prognosis.Viruses · 2025Review
- Open-source data pipeline for street-view images: A case study on community mobility during COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Investigating the potential of aggregated mobility indices for inferring public transport ridership changes.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
People mobility data sets played a role during the COVID-19 pandemic in assessing the impact of lockdown measures and correlating mobility with pandemic trends. Two global data sets were Apple's Mobility Trends Reports and Google's Community Mobility Reports. The former is no longer available online, while the latter is no longer updated since October 2022. Thus, new products are required. To establish a lower bound on data set penetration guaranteeing high adherence between new products and the Big Tech products, an independent mobility data set based on 3.8 million smartphone trajectories is analysed to compare its information content with that of the Google data set. This lower bound is determined to be around 10
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