FROM INSTAGRAM TO SCIENCE (JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING)

Title: Individual Mobility Pattern in Malaysia During COVID-19 Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) Partial Lockdown

Journal: Geo: Geography and Environment 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.113

Our journal paper was 100% created during the UTM Work From Home (WFH) policy in the year 2021 pandemic. From social media instagram geo-data mining, geo-coding, geo-modelling, geo-analytics, official data correlation and writing, everything was done at home. The Geo: Geography and Environment journal is a Q2 journal with an impact of 12 and located in UK (Wiley Publisher). 

Using the new approach we created in GISc, the findings show that when the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) is implemented in Malaysia, the focus areas of Malaysians show uniform and consistent spatial pattern trajectories throughout the country. It is then supported by official data from the Ministry of Health Malaysia with an increase in cases of COVID-19 cases in the hotspot areas identified in this study.

What is unfortunate is that the findings of this study cannot be shared in advance for public use because the evaluation process by the reviewers of this international journal takes some time. However, we understand this enables the expert reviewers to evaluate the new proposed techniques, data, and writing to meet the world standards.

Hopefully, the new GISc techniques introduced in this journal can be used for future reference. Data mining from social media can provide insights into the findings of scientific studies.

P.S: This research is unrelated to the field of 3D GIS. But it shows how our new technique in GIS (2D) can help in predicting COVID-19 hotspots. Please don’t hesitate to read the paper and share it to your acquaintance and students. Thanks! 

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