Discussions

In the (distant) past when we got Monthly and Weekly Patterns data from SafeGraph, when we wanted to scale, say, the number of visitors per day from a particular CBG, we would use the Home Panel Summary dataset in combination with the Census CBG population count to create a scaling factor that we could to impute visitor counts to an area from the raw visit counts (e.g. https://stanfordfuturebay.github.io/covid19/safegraph_normalization_explainer.html#:~:text=This%20number%20can%20be%20obtained,the%20actual%20number%20of%20visitors.)

Now that we are using Advan data, and with the changes made starting after November 18, 2024, is that kind of scaling still necessary?