In the First Alert Weather Center at WDAM, we laugh that we “track everything” out there. This tracking, that tracking. We even track our tracking.
But Google really is tracking things. And the things it is tracking is you.
Maybe Rockwell was onto something….
From Google:
As global communities respond to COVID-19, we’ve heard from public health officials that the same type of aggregated, anonymized insights we use in products such as Google Maps could be helpful as they make critical decisions to combat COVID-19.
These Community Mobility Reports aim to provide insights into what has changed in response to policies aimed at combating COVID-19. The reports chart movement trends over time by geography, across different categories of places such as retail and recreation, groceries and pharmacies, parks, transit stations, workplaces, and residential.
That’s right. The Community Mobility Report from Google will show you how your state is moving around during the pandemic.
The charts look like this:
And here is a quick view in spreadsheet form of some regional states:
| Retail | Grocery | Parks | Public Transit | Workplace | Residential | |
| Mississippi | -32.00% | -7.00% | 27.00% | -29.00% | -30.00% | 9.00% |
| Louisiana | -45.00% | -16.00% | -18.00% | -49.00% | -35.00% | 11.00% |
| Alabama | -41.00% | -13.00% | 19.00% | -30.00% | -37.00% | 9.00% |
| Arkansas | -29.00% | -7.00% | 81.00% | -22.00% | -27.00% | 7.00% |
| Tennessee | -35.00% | -9.00% | 35.00% | -35.00% | -34.00% | 8.00% |
| Average | -36.40% | -10.40% | 28.80% | -33.00% | -32.60% | 8.80% |
But Google also shows you how your County is moving around, too.
The data was collected and distributed on April 1st. No word from Google is they plan to update this information daily, weekly, or monthly. Or if, perhaps, this is just a “one off.”
Google covered all of the background info in a blog post, here.
Curious how your state is “moving around” during the pandemic? Here are a few regional states:
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Arkansas
Tennessee
For a look at how each county in each state is moving, just scroll down through the .pdf file to the name of your county.
