Data mapping shows our cities going into lockdown

DATA MAPPING SHOWS OUR CITIES

going into lockdown

“It looks like a heartbeat, which is really cool. Specifically for COVID-19, what it actually allows us to get a handle on is less of an anecdote – in terms of, we kind of think that people are behaving themselves, we kind of think people might not be moving around. This actually shows us that, broadly speaking, people are being well behaved and listening to the key messages that we’ve all been hearing. And that’s actually quite a good news story from my point of view.”

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MALCOLM CAMPBELL, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, WHO SPOKE ON A SCIENCE MEDIA CENTRE Q&A ON THE VISUALISATIONS

As part of the Science Media Centre’s COVID-19 response, it commissioned freelance geographer Chris McDowall to create visualisations of key COVID-19 data. In these videos, Chris used information provided by Data Ventures – the commercial arm of Stats NZ – to show how our three main centres moved in early stages of lockdown. The animations used cell phone tower data that roughly shows where people (and their phones) were moving in the weeks leading up to Easter 2020.

VIEW DATA VISUALISATIONS

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