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Happy and we know it
Science Magazine published a piece today framing twitter as a laboratory for research, Social Scientists Wade Into The Tweet Stream, including the above figure showing our hedonometer’s measure of...
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The Happiest Distribution
Do you laugh within your tweets? e.g. hahaha!!! Here we show the number of times these different laugh species appear in tweets as a function of how many ha‘s they contain. A few observations:...
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Hedonometrics
Our paper “Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter” appears in PLoS ONE this week. Their blog encourages you to tweet for the sake of...
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Does QWERTY Affect Happiness?
Last week, news broke of a paper published in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review by Kyle Jasmin and Daniel Casasanto claiming to observe a positive relationship between the “right-handedness” of a...
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Question: Where is the happiest place in New York City?
Possible answers: Immediately adjacent to any hot dog stand. Madison Square Garden during moments of Linsanity. Tim Tebow’s new apartment building. No really though, let’s measure some stuff. Facts:...
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If you’re happy and we know it … are your friends?
Do your friends influence your behavior? Of course they do. But it’s hard to actually measure their influence. Social contagion is difficult to distinguish from homophily, the tendency we have to...
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The Daily Unraveling of the Human Mind
Each morning we find ourselves in wide flung arms of drowsy possibilites. Cradled by the warm embrace of our beds, we begin our day, rebooted and rejuvenated. Having not eaten for a full eight hours,...
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Where is the happiest city in the USA?
Is Disneyland really the happiest place on Earth?* How happy is the city you live in? We have already seen how the hedonometer can be used to find the happiest street corner in New York City, now it’s...
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What makes a city happy?
Welcome back, onehappybird watchers! Wow, what a crazy week of coverage of our post about how happiness varies by city and state across the United States. Many, many people read, shared, and commented...
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The Twitter Diet
How does food (or talking about food online) relate to how happy you are? This is part 3 of our series on the Geography of Happiness. Previously we’ve looked at how happiness varies across the United...
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Now online: the Dow Jones Index of Happiness
Total excitement people: our website hedonometer.org has gone live. We’re measuring Twitter’s happiness in real time. Please check it out! If you’re still here, here’s the blurb from the site’s about...
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Now Published: The Geography of Happiness
Today we’re pleased to announce that our article “The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and objective characteristics of place” has been officially...
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How does movement influence your daily happiness?
Imagine commuting an hour to work, one way, grinding through miles of traffic to get from your suburban home to a desk job in the big city. Excited yet? Ok, now imagine that you lead a life of leisure...
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Hedonometer 2.0
Geography of Happiness for the US Over the summer of 2014, we have worked very hard to bring many new pieces to our Hedonometer, and we’re pleased to tell you about what we’ve done, and where we’re...
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Hedonometer 2.0: Measuring happiness and using word shifts
With our Hedonometer, we’re measuring how a (very capable) individual might feel when reading a large text—a day’s worth of tweets from New York City, the first chapter of Moby Dick, or the music...
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The Happiest Character on Seinfeld was …
… Kramer! Ohhh YEAHHHHH! Whether he was analyzing underwear performance (“My boys need a house!”), advising a friend on marriage (“Is it alright if I use the bathroom now?”), or unabashedly offering...
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