Mikael Thalen fra DailyDot har taget et kig på mobildata fra de unge, der festede i Florida. Det er der kommet fire tweets, to gif’er og to artikler ud af:
This shows the location data of phones that were on a Florida beach during Spring Break. It then shows where those phones traveled.
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 26, 2020
First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off. pic.twitter.com/iokUX3qjeB
This kind of data is obviously incredibly useful and has a wide-range of applications. But while the data used is "anonymized," meaning it is not linked to the phone's owner, researchers have found that it is incredibly easy to link the two. https://t.co/UmMej1ZKui
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 26, 2020
This visualization comes from a joint-project between location data company X-Mode and geospatial data visualization platform Tectonix.
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 27, 2020
I wrote a quick article detailing their efforts to track the coronavirus for the @dailydot. Check it out! https://t.co/mFSm4k0iKB
Remember, the above video is just the movements of cell phones from one Florida beach.
— Mikael Thalen (@MikaelThalen) March 27, 2020
The cell phone location data out of greater Manhattan is even more telling. pic.twitter.com/cKCxX2BOf4
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