apple_mobility: Apple Mobility Data
In kjhealy/covmobility: COVID-19-related Mobility Data from Apple and Google

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Data from Apple Maps on relative changes in mobility in various cities and countries.

1	apple_mobility

A data frame with 1,970,220 rows and 8 variables:

geo_type: character Type geographical unit. Values: city or country/region
region: character Name of geographical unit.
transportation_type: character Mode of transport. Values: Driving, Transit, or Walking
alternative_name: character Name of region in local language
sub_region: character Subregion
country: character Country name (not provided for all countries)
date: double Date in yyyy-mm-dddd format
score: double Activity score. Indexed to 100 on the first date of observation for a given mode of transport.

Table: Data summary


Name	apple_mobility
Number of rows	1970220
Number of columns	8
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Column type frequency:
Date	1
character	6
numeric	1
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Group variables	None

Variable type: Date

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	median	n_unique
date	0	1	2020-01-13	2021-03-07	2020-08-09	420

Variable type: character

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	min	max	empty	n_unique	whitespace
geo_type	0	1.00	4	14	0	4	0
region	0	1.00	4	48	0	2325	0
transportation_type	0	1.00	7	7	0	3	0
alternative_name	1531740	0.22	2	85	0	519	0
sub_region	572040	0.71	4	33	0	162	0
country	64260	0.97	5	20	0	47	0

Variable type: numeric

skim_variable	n_missing	complete_rate	mean	sd	p0	p25	p50	p75	p100	hist
score	23552	0.99	120.1	61.71	0.44	84.31	112.79	145.79	2148.12	▇▁▁▁▁

Data made available by Apple, Inc. at https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility, showing relative volume of directions requests per country/region or city compared to a baseline volume on January 13th, 2020. Apple defines the day as midnight-to-midnight, Pacific time. Cities represent usage in greater metropolitan areas and are stably defined during this period. In many countries/regions and cities, relative volume has increased since January 13th, consistent with normal, seasonal usage of Apple Maps. Day of week effects are important to normalize as you use this data. Data that is sent from users’ devices to the Apple Maps service is associated with random, rotating identifiers so Apple does not have a profile of individual movements and searches. Apple Maps has no demographic information about its users, and so cannot make any statements about the representativeness of its usage against the overall population.

Kieran Healy

https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility

See https://www.apple.com/covid19/mobility for detailed terms of use.

kjhealy/covmobility documentation built on March 17, 2021, 6:36 a.m.