Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19

This repository contains the code for "Interdependence and the Cost of Uncoordinated Responses to COVID-19" (preprint available here). Code is divided into 4 subfolders:

  • analysis: contains all code pertaining to statistical modeling for the analysis presented in main text and the supplementary information.
  • data_cleaning: contains all code used to pre-process the raw data for analysis.
  • output: contains all plots generated.
  • utils: contains various code utilies used across different files.

Contributors: David Holtz*, Michael Zhao*, Seth G. Benzell, Cathy Y. Cao, M. Amin Rahimian, Jeremy Yang, Jennifer Allen, Avinash Collis, Alex Moehring, Tara Sowrirajan, Dipayan Ghosh, Yunhao Zhang, Paramveer S. Dhillon, Christos Nicolaides, Dean Eckles, and Sinan Aral


Raw Data

Safegraph Data

SafeGraph data access can be requested here.

Facebook Data

Movement Range map data from Facebook's Data for Good Initiative available publicly here. Access to the Social Connectedness Index can be requested by emailing sci_data [at] fb [dot] com.

Weather Data

The GHCN-Daily weather data is publicly availalble here.

Government Intervention Data

JHU's county-level US interventions summaries is available here.

US Census Data

US Census Data is publicly available here.

Inquiries

Please direct inquires and correspondence to Sinan Aral (sinan [at] mit [dot] edu) or Dean Eckles (eckles [at] mit [dot] edu)