It's happening in China and the same thing is happening across the planet: the coronavirus is paralyzing the world, and it's visible in all the pollution and navigation data. Now, Google has launched a website where we can see the effect of COVID-19 on our movements: we stay home 94% more than usual in some respects.
Google has access to millions of phones, so it can generate enough representative statistics for the public to verify. That's why it uses GPS users' data too issue nationally dissolved reports, showing how travel has been reduced and reduced.
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We get out very slowly with the coronavirus, even in the store
More specifically, the web is a new part of Google dedicated solely to data generated after the coronavirus. We have a list of all the countries included and, with the search engine, we can find ours, by moving us to a PDF that we can view online. There are currently 131 countries and regions, so it is very likely that we will get ours.
Inside we will find maths wise as in Spain we stopped going with 94% on leisure related topics or 64% about movement performance. Travel to public stations such as subway or train has dropped by 84% and, despite the fact that movement to supermarkets and pharmacies has increased steadily in recent weeks, it has now dropped by 78%.
However, and as expected, domestic travel increased 22% about normal. This is because most people just go straight to work or shop to go home, rather than going to the park in the middle or somewhere else. In fact, only the number has gone up. In addition, not all countries experience the same results, and the disease does not do the same, so travel has not started much in all countries.
How Google produced this data
Humble yourself, because This does not mean that Google has been testing you. This data is only taken for those people who have the option of activated location history. This activity, linked to Google Maps, allows Google to register each location we have, and for how long.
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So, a map is made of all the places where we lived all the time, something we can look at in terms of maps. It can be terminated at any time And we have the choice of whether to send this data to the search engine or not – here we show you how to do it. In other words, private data has never been used or people's privacy has been broken.
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