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2020-04-10Scraping Google's COVID-19 mobility report PDFs

Last week Google published their COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports. These make use of Google’s very extensive location history data, which they mainly use for telling you about traffic levels on roads, popular times for places in Google Maps and whether a bar or restaurant is busier than usual. In these mobility reports they’ve looked at the location history data for a large number of countries, and localities within countries to help public health officials review the effectiveness of social distancing measures.