Leveraging Facebook mobility data for COVID19 policy development in Wales
June 22, 2021 by CrisisReady
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Displacement and Gender on St Vincent Following the La Soufriere Volcanic Eruption
by Akash Yadav (CrisisReady)
The La Soufriere volcano on the island of St Vincent began erupting on the 27th of December at the end of 2020. On April 13th, 2021 an enormous plume of ash and smoke spewed from the crater.
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Facebook Mobility Map
The data contained in this map displays county level changes in the rates of mobility and staying put, which can allow people to understand the degree to which their communities may be adopting physical distancing efforts.
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Did Data Make a Difference? Reviewing the COVID-19 Crises with Facebook Data for Good
January 26, 2021 by Andrew Schroeder
Did data make a difference? Lessons from Facebook Data for Good in 2020
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Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:00am — 01:00pm
The role of Facebook Data for Good tools for COVID-19 response, routine immunizations, and development programs and what this means for …
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Digital Mobility Data, Physical Distancing, and COVID-19 in Syracuse
by Jennifer Chan
Syracuse is a modest sized city of just over 140,000 people in upstate New York. It sits within the heart of the Finger Lakes region, not far from Lake Ontario. Although far from the worst hit areas of New York state by COVID-19, Syracuse saw alarming increases in cases and deaths during the initial wave of the pandemic.
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Case Study: Using Facebook Data to Monitor Adherence to Stay-at-home Orders in Colorado and Utah
Published in MedRxiv, 2020.06.04.20122093
July 30, 2020 by Layer, R. M., Fosdick, B., Bradshaw, M., Larremore, D. B., & Doherty, P.
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Many Displaced from Hurricane Laura Are Now in Path of Hurricane Delta
by Andrew Schroeder
Hurricane Delta is set to make landfall as a Category 2 storm on the coast of Louisiana and western Mississippi on Friday, Oct. 9. This would be a serious situation under any circumstance, but for those still displaced from the last major storm in this area, Hurricane Laura, which made landfall on Aug.
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Challenges to Transforming Unconventional Social Media Data into Actionable Knowledge for Public Health Systems during Disasters
Published in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 14(3), 352–359
June 1, 2020 by Chan, J. L., & Purohit, H.
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Mobility Data Analysis and Application in the United Kingdom
by Abhishek Bhatia
The MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA) at Imperial College London is an international resource and centre of excellence for research and capacity building on the epidemiological analysis and modelling of infectious diseases, and to undertake applied collaborative work with national and international agencies to support policy planning and response operations against infectious disease threats.
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