Create Variable for Essential-Travel

[d-alex-hughes]

Team -- this is a great, great job building this repository. The work is sensible within each of the files, and although the documentation could be filled out somewhat, I was able to dig through things pretty quickly enough. Quickly enough to learn that I couldn't do what I wanted to!

I was wondering: What does the change in essential travel look like across this same time period? Here's why: you're showing a decrease in the non-essential travel, but there is a lot more that I'd like to know.

• Was the decrease in travel happening before the implementation of the stay at home order? The last plot that you show makes me think that this might be the case?
• Was there a general decrease in movement?

Basically, the upshot of this question is, "Would these models that you've written be able to distinguish between something that they should show (decrease in non-essential) but not that they should not show.

Here's what I wanted to do: add a new variable to your mobility dataset. But, there's a kink in your data pipeline; there's a call to a file in ./data/raw/mobility.csv that doesn't actually exist there. So, I wasn't able to make the variable.

If you fix that, I'd be curious to see what the plot like the Kansas and Arkansas plot would look like, but with essential travel as a new layer in the plot?