Skip to content

Documentation update for smoothed safegraph signals #275

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
merged 10 commits into from
Nov 19, 2020

Conversation

sgsmob
Copy link
Contributor

@sgsmob sgsmob commented Nov 10, 2020

This PR updates the signal documentation to include smoothed version of the safegraph signals. See cmu-delphi/covidcast-indicators#332.

@capnrefsmmat
Copy link
Contributor

It may be worth adding, after the signal list and the paragraph on estimation, a short paragraph saying why 7-day averaging is useful. Something like:

Because these signals measure mobility each day, there are strong day-of-week effects: weekends have substantially different values than weekdays. Users interested in long-term trends, rather than mobility on one specific day, may prefer the 7d_avg signals, since averaging over the preceding 7 days removes these day-of-week effects.

@sgsmob
Copy link
Contributor Author

sgsmob commented Nov 10, 2020

It may be worth adding, after the signal list and the paragraph on estimation, a short paragraph saying why 7-day averaging is useful. Something like:

Because these signals measure mobility each day, there are strong day-of-week effects: weekends have substantially different values than weekdays. Users interested in long-term trends, rather than mobility on one specific day, may prefer the 7d_avg signals, since averaging over the preceding 7 days removes these day-of-week effects.

Thanks, done.

@krivard krivard changed the base branch from main to docs/1.11 November 18, 2020 14:37
sgsmob and others added 5 commits November 19, 2020 09:36
Rewording rationale

Co-authored-by: Akvannortwick <[email protected]>
Update description of median home dwell time

Co-authored-by: Akvannortwick <[email protected]>
Update description of part time work prop

Co-authored-by: Akvannortwick <[email protected]>
Update description of full time work prop

Co-authored-by: Akvannortwick <[email protected]>
Update description of completely home prop

Co-authored-by: Akvannortwick <[email protected]>
@krivard krivard merged commit 2448628 into cmu-delphi:docs/1.11 Nov 19, 2020
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

4 participants