Supercomputer study of mobility in Spain at the peak of COVID-19 using Facebook and Google data: Researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center have published a study based on mobility data from Google and Facebook at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, to demonstrate how this can be a sound source of information for epidemiological and socioeconomic analyses.
The data were collected between March 1 and June 27, from the phones of volunteers who had agreed to use tracking apps.
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