Here's the one for the country where I live, Belarus:
https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_BY_Mobil...
Notice anything unexpected?
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#22Why is China missing?
Perhaps because Google services are blocked in China and Android phones there don't have Play Services with Location History? You can't plot data you don't have ;)
Hong Kong is there though. Everything is still shut down: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_HK_Mobil...
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#24With all this data, I've always wondered why there isn't some sort of internal "hedge fund" at Google.
https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/google-is-now-search...
> Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, once said the company should start a hedge fund because it had so much information. But Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, reportedly responded, “Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst,” since the company would face serious legal problems in starting a hedge fund.
> Regardless of Google’s plans, the company is looking for a trader of foreign government bonds, an analyst for Google’s United States government bond portfolio and a portfolio analyst for agency mortgage-backed securities, according to Business Insider.
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#25Why PDF? There is nothing in the reports that could not be done with html.
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#26Why is China missing?
Perhaps because Google services are blocked in China and Android phones there don't have Play Services with Location History? You can't plot data you don't have ;)
Hong Kong is available though: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_HK_Mobil...
Still in full lock down.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps because Google services are blocked in China and Android phones there don't have Play Services with Location History? You can't plot data you don't have ;)
There are millions of people in China with always on VPNs, and they still have a non-insubstantial business in the country. The thing is, the geographic data there is protected by law, and they don't want an espionage charge. The same is provably true for a suspicious missing of a few other countries with similar attitudes.
If you're using a VPN, your location won't show up as mainland China.
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#28India's mobility report[1] shows a spike in outside activities just before lockdown. I hope I am wrong but I think we are going to see spike in coronavirus cases just before end of lockdown. Not sure what government will do then. [1]: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_IN_Mobil...
I think that spike is just the two normal days between 22nd's curfew and 25's lockdown
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#29It would be interesting to be able to compare countries. For example, which countries have responded most to a lockdown and which have not responded at all? The data is already broken down by state so it would be good to see this data on a map of the US.
They specifically say in the report that data differs even between individual regions in a country and are not comparable.
It's really more of a qualitative "we have these numbers and they went up/down like this" kind of a report. They don't say what the numbers mean (except some vague sense of being related to "visits and length of stay"). I find it really hard to draw any kind of conclusion from this.
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#30India's mobility report[1] shows a spike in outside activities just before lockdown. I hope I am wrong but I think we are going to see spike in coronavirus cases just before end of lockdown. Not sure what government will do then. [1]: https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/2020-03-29_IN_Mobil...
I think that spike is just the two normal days between 22nd's curfew and 25's lockdown
Definitely not normal because you can see the spike in grocery stores. People were stocking up.