{"id":5116,"date":"2020-06-26T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/technarrativelab.org\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:39:03","slug":"modeling-movement-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/06\/26\/modeling-movement-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling Movement in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>via Tim Gulden<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is exploring the use of \u201cvolunteered\u201d mobile device data to better understand the network of human contact over which Covid-19 (and much of human culture) spreads within an American city.\u00a0 Specifically, we are looking at a set of 2.2 billion \u201cpings\u201d in the Portland, Ore. Metropolitan region between January and April 2020. These data were obtained from UberMedia \u2013 a company that aggregates, analyzes, and resells position information from over 150,000 smart phone apps where the user has agreed to share their position with the app developer and its partners.\u00a0 We have applied big-data methods (primarily PySpark on RAND\u2019s internal cluster) to process these points and explore several approaches to building a contact network.\u00a0 We find that the data are sparser than anticipated, making a simple transmission network unworkable.\u00a0 In light of this limitation, we are developing a method relying on some basic behavioral assumptions and composing data over time to produce a network that has many of the properties of the full contact network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden-1024x461.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden-1024x461.png 1024w, https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden-600x270.png 600w, https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/gulden.png 1089w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Tim Gulden This project is exploring the use of \u201cvolunteered\u201d mobile device data to better understand the network of human contact over which Covid-19 (and much of human culture) spreads within an American city.\u00a0 Specifically, we are looking at a set of 2.2 billion \u201cpings\u201d in the Portland, Ore. Metropolitan region between January and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,27],"tags":[59,68],"class_list":["post-5116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-iot","category-social-media","tag-r3","tag-tim-gulden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}