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I was thinking today that it would be a good use of that map data thats recorded from our phones GPS for mapping the route of the virus. Hypothetically: If all
by bilekas 7y ago
I was thinking today that it would be a good use of that map data thats recorded from our phones GPS for mapping the route of the virus.
Hypothetically: If all infected submitted their map data for the last few days (annonymously - no need to identify people) and all of that data was plotted over maps, you could identify the routes and direction of infections.
I don't know if it would be anything more than an interesting visualisation of the data already collected, but the comment mentioning Edward Tufte really got me thinking how to visualise the data we have properly.
We haven't seen something spreading like this in my lifetime anyway and at the same time, we've never had so much data on ourselves in my lifetime either, might be a good time to put it to good use for once.