Stunning Visualization Reveals Where Spring Break Covidiots Traveled After Flooding Florida Beaches
On Monday we reported how thousands of young Americans laughed off warnings to self-isolate and partied on Florida beaches anyway for spring break - with several now testing positive for COVID-19.
The poster child for these selfish 'covidiots' - who will statistically survive coronavirus - was a spring breaker from Ohio, Bradley Sluder - told CBS News: "If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying," adding "We're just out here having a good time. Whatever happens, happens."
“If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying”: Spring breakers are still flocking to Miami, despite coronavirus warnings. https://cbsn.ws/33sb67i
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In case you were wondering how far these spring break 'covidiots' traveled for their ill-advised debauchery data visualization company Tectonix used cell phone location data collected by company X-Mode to map out the travels of thousands of spring breakers, using special geo-spatial big-data analysis software.
The data - provided by cell phone companies in near real-time, was anonymized.
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Amazing.
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This kind of data is obviously incredibly useful and has a wide-range of applications. But while the data used is "anonymized," meaning it is not linked to the phone's owner, researchers have found that it is incredibly easy to link the two. https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/24/researchers-spotlight-the-lie-of-anonymous-data/ …
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