Geolocated Twitter-based population mobility in Victoria, Australia, during the staged COVID-19 restrictions

Thin Nguyen; Sunil Gupta; Jaishankar Raman; Rinaldo Bellomo; Svetha Venkatesh

doi:10.51893/2020.4.sc1

Geolocated Twitter-based population mobility in Victoria, Australia, during the staged COVID-19 restrictions

Crit Care Resusc. 2023 Oct 18;22(4):293-294. doi: 10.51893/2020.4.sc1. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Thin Nguyen¹, Sunil Gupta¹, Jaishankar Raman², Rinaldo Bellomo³, Svetha Venkatesh¹

Affiliations

¹ Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2), Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
² Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Melbourne, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
³ Centre for Integrated Critical Care, Department of Medicine and Radiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

Abstract

Using geotagged Twitter data in Victoria, we created a mobility index and studied the changes during the staged restrictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We describe preliminary evidence that geotagged Twitter data may be used to provide real-time population mobility data and information on the impact of restrictions on such mobility.