A number of COVID-19 papers make use of the social distancing metrics. As I understand it, this data is no longer available. How can one best deal with this issue?

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Hi all.
I had a couple of questions about SafeGraph data:

  1. A number of COVID-19 papers make use of the social distancing metrics. As I understand it, this data is no longer available. How can one best deal with this issue?
  2. Are there some resources detailing SafeGraph data sourcing and integration of these various sources?

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Hi Thanks for reaching out! We are looking into it and will get back to you once we have an answer.

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Hey ! Thanks for the questions and the time yesterday on our onboarding call. Going to drop a handful of links and resources that I think you’ll find useful.

While we’ve discontinued use of the Social Distancing Metrics, similar information can be gleaned from our Weekly Patterns (available soon in Shop!). Attaching a guide that goes over how to use Weekly Patterns as a proxy for the SDM.

Also dropping two links on how our data is sourced. Check them out when you can!

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Hi ! Just confirming that we answered your question. I’m going to go ahead and close this thread out. If you have any more questions or follow-up questions, we’re always here to help! Just be sure to make a new post to safegraphdata, as we aren’t monitoring old threads at this time. Thanks!