Fig. 3. Steps of the methodology to estimate the downtime of small businesses applied to Kathmandu, Nepal.

a Time series of the total number of posts of all businesses ($r\left(t\right)$), shown with weekly rolling mean (black solid line). b Single business Probability Integral Transformed data ($r_{PIT}$). c Data is shifted and rescaled according the number of active businesses. d PIT applied on the aggregated and transformed time series. e Downtime detection using the elbow method.