Daniel Larremore, a Minerva-funded researcher and several colleagues from Colorado joined a nationwide study that seeks to use social media data to better understand how coronavirus cases might grow and travel in the coming weeks. The COVID-19 Mobility Data Network will allow researchers like Larremore to build maps that show where people are still traveling in the age of social distancing.
Link: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/04/07/mathematician-using-facebook-data-fight-against-covid-19