Company
Date Published
Author
Kieran Gupta
Word count
904
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Mapbox's latest upgrade to its Movement Data set significantly enhances geospatial insights, offering 10-100 times more coverage across major markets, improved reliability, and a 13% higher correlation with mobility and commercial activity indicators. This update includes five major enhancements, such as an auto-scaling model to correct urban-rural activity imbalances, full support for over four million administrative boundaries, and a refined activity index re-scaled based on tile size to ensure accurate comparisons across latitudes. Intelligent privacy thresholds have expanded data coverage, particularly in regions like the US, Mexico, the UK, and Canada, while ensuring data privacy. The Movement Data is now accessible in any cloud environment, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Snowflake Data Marketplace, allowing seamless integration for analysis. This enhanced data set demonstrates a strong correlation with real-world indicators like The Economist's Normalcy Index, outperforming other mobility data such as Google's and Apple's, and is available in over 140 countries for diverse applications across industries.