Google mobility data download#

The second column (with the green links) lists any regional aggregation withinĪ country (if available).Clicking on the orange link takes you to a country view. The first column from the left (with the orange links) lists all the countries for.Ok, lots of things are happening here! so lets go over them one by one: If we follow the “Explore all the available dataflows” link (or “Catalog”) menu item we get to the listing of all top-level datasets (as indicated above, this follows a country scheme). This looks as follows:įrom the landing page you can explore the functionality by following the “getting started links” on the right (or from top bar menu). You can head directly to the landing page of the mobility data app. This leaves 12,335 timeseries with a fully populated profile.

In the current snapshot we opt to leave out dataseries that have missing data. Missing Dataįor a variety of reasons many datasets have missing data. There are currently 25,008 distinct timeseries in total. state or other formal region within a country)

country level (for some countries this is the only available level).

The data are grouped per country (currently 132 countries) and have a hierarchical structure:

Google mobility data download#

The current download contains 300,823 datapoints (each datapoint is an observation within a timeseries of aggregate daily observations per specific region and identified “designation” or activity within that region). The numbers and plots in this blog post are based on Reports updated on 22:08 GMT. The first release of Google Mobility Data dates from April 3, 2020. In practice the Mobility Data module retrieves statistical data from outside sources, integrates them in a uniform interface and provides data views, visualizations and modelling functionality.Ĭurrently the included data sets are based on the Google reports and all the below analyses refer to those. The module serves several purposes: makes the raw data easily available online allows exploration of their statistical properties enables analyses of relations with other data sets. The Mobility Data module of OpenCPM is an interactive, visual web application (dashboard) that builds on these open data repositories. The Mobility Data module in the 0.5 Release While these reports are unlikely to persist as open data sources, their current availability (as of May 2020) enables providing within OpenCPM a mobility risk dashboard that can help draw insights through visualization and statistical analysis.

The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of locations and activities, such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential. These Community Mobility Reports provide insights into how mobility patterns changed in response both to pandemic news and policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The community mobility reports and OpenCPM:Īs the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded technology providers (most notably Google and Apple) made available to the public aggregated and anonymized data about human mobility in the crisis period (on the basis of smartphone location data).