only tool for pandemic-related decision making.
Hence, it cannot reflect individual cases. Third, it’s
also worth mentioning that this indicator is not meant
to replace existing visualizations of pandemic data
such as the DOH COVID-19 tracker (DOH, 2021b).
Tracker websites already present relevant data about
a specific infectious disease and the indicator of this
study gives insights or interpret these established data
instead so that it can be more readable or easily
understood supplemented by research on the safety of
particular activities. Lastly, the geographic scope of
the indicator encapsulates every region of the
Philippines. There is an indicator per region that
shows the selected region’s risks associated with
carrying out certain tasks while in the midst of a
pandemic.
As for potential improvements, existing COVID-
19 data used in the study was only limited to the
Philippines. With this, a possible improvement is to
create an activity based indicator system which can
be applied for more than one country. Facebook also
published a per municipality public dataset about how
people are responding to physical distancing
measures (Facebook, n.d.). The dataset has two
different metrics: the Change in Movement metric
(how much people are moving around) and the Stay
Put metric (the fraction of the population that appears
to stay within a small area surrounding their home for
an entire day). This may further be incorporated into
the calculations of the indicator system since it is
related to general movement of a population.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We would like to show our gratitude to Dr. William
Yu, our research advisor, for directing the flow of the
study. To the FASSSTER team and the Ateneo Center
for Computing Competency and Research (ACCRe),
thank you for creating and giving access to the
FASSSTER website. We would also like to give
thanks to the DOH’s Epidemiology Bureau for
creating and maintaining the COVID-19 data drop
used in the study.
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