A Cool Way To See Everyone Staying Home

Web Marketing Firm Cuebiq has come up with a neat graph that uses the information about how cell phones move from location to location to measure how much people have been travelling before and after the COVID lockdown. It looks at the median number of miles traveled by cell phones in their database and maps it county by county.  You can zoom into particular states or regions as well. 

Because different parts of the country are more spread out and require more travel to go to the nearest grocery store than others, I prefer the option of showing the Delta vs Year average which looks at how each county is doing relative to what they did on average for the last year.

Here's a neat GIF I made to see how the Country responded to calls to social distance starting in mid March.  The bluer the county, the less travel they're doing compared to their average:

I think it says good things about our country that the drastic shift to blue occurred even before most states issued shelter at home orders.