During the COVID-19 pandemic, companies and society at large were able to use data to gain insight into the spread of the virus and how people moved around.By using new technologies during the pandemic, healthcare officials have more insight into how to prevent widespread infection in the future.“SafeGraph, during the pandemic … made all of their mobility data available for free to people who were doing research and plugging in trying to understand COVID-19,” said Kelly Gaither (pictured), director of health analytics at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. “I picked that data up, and we used it as a proxy for human behavior