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Author: Lindsay Levene

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     "#--Outbreaks impact peoples behaviors. A persons perception of an outbreak has an impact on how they choose to behave. If the outbreak is percived to be severe larger behavioral changes will be observed, for example staying home or taking less trips to the grocery store.  COVID Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. \n",
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-    "#--Past work has shown public health officials can use behavioral data to evaluate policy and procedures to put in place. Some uses of this data is by public health officals to evaluate effectiveness of lockdowns and reopening policies, government to assess compliance with restrictions, and researchers to model where possible case surges may happen. \n",
+    "#--Past work has shown public health officials can use behavioral data to evaluate policy and procedures to put in place. Some uses of this data is by public health officals to evaluate effectiveness of lockdowns and reopening policies. Governments can use this data to assess compliance with restrictions. Researchers use thiis data to model where possible case surges may happen in the furture. There are many different public health benefits to a mobility dataset. \n",
     "\n",
     "#--Dataset itself. \n",
     "(prof m to read about this god damn COVID report)\n",
     "The COVID Community Mobility Report characterizes, compared to a baseline, the average proportion of time spent in a set of X locations: X,X,X,X for a given population. \n",
     "\n",
+    "#--\n",
+    "\n",
     "#--The graphs below plot the time series. The first (blue) graph shows the percent change from baseline for activity in reatil and recreation. There is a line drawn at zero. Many of the plotted points are below zero because there was a decrease in trips to retail and recreation as a result of the COVID outbreak. The second graph (orange) shows change from baseline for time spent at home. Most of these points are above zero. This indicates an increase in people spending time at home as a result of the outbreak. \n",
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     "\n",
     "The reports charted movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places.\n",
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-    "Some weirdnesses to note about this data is the measure of baseline. \n",
-    "These measures are relative to pre-pandemic movement and not the absolute movement. Some of the categories also overlap (e.g. retail & grocery). \n",
+    "The data holds some limitations. The measures in the set are measures from baseline relative to pre-pandemic movement. This does not represent absolute movement. The data was collected only from users who have opted-in to Location History for their Google Account, creating a restrictive sample. \n",
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-    "Data was collected from users who have opted-in to Location History for their Google Account, so the data represents a\n",
-    "sample of users.\n",
     "This can cause limitations because it was only collecting data from Google Maps users. Some other limitations or missing information includes differentiation between indoor and outdoor interactions, essential workers who must travel, and availability to social distance within locations.\n",
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