In this repo, we analyze the "Social Distancing Metrics v2.1", which shows the aggregated daily views of USA foot-traffic summarizing movement between census block groups, from SafeGraph (https://docs.safegraph.com/v4.0/docs/social-distancing-metrics)
We use Census Block Group data to get geographical information from United States Department of Agriculture (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/home/?cid=nrcs143_013697)
The following figures shows the daily mobility change in 7 major US cities before, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
The mobility analysis is used for paper:
Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Zhizhen Zhong, Guanqing Yan, Chiun Lin Lim, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Soshant Bali, Alexander Nikolaidis, Kimia Ghobadi, Manya Ghobadi, "A Social Network Under Social Distancing: Risk-Driven Network Management During COVID-19 and Beyond", NSDI 2021. https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi21/presentation/xia
Contact: zhizhenzhong [at] csail [dot] mit [dot] edu