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- coding123 7y agoIt clearly shows a giant sine wave and we're very happy on xmas. So... now we should juxtapose the stock market and see how things correlate. Only then will we be able to answer the age old question if money = happiness. Edit: Also we're much much much happier with our mother than our father. This has soo much info packed into it.
- blackflame7000 7y agoIt's a big mistake to assume the people of twitter are a good sample of the people of the US.
- rflrob 7y agoI think the fact that two of the top ~10 happiest days in 2018 were attributed to a Korean pop star's birthday is excellent evidence that people of twitter are not, in fact, good samples of the people of the US.
- blackflame7000 7y agoAlso, the sadness when Trump was elected despite relatively even vote totals tells you that Twitter skews to the left.
- taurath 7y agoI think the bigger mistake is to think even if it was a good sample it could gauge people’s mood - incentives for posting to social media are either happy or outrage. You will never get a silent majority “just okay” or “neutral-low” by averaging between ecstatic and outraged.
- blackflame7000 7y ago"The squeaky wheel gets the grease"
- Anon84 7y ago>we should juxtapose the stock market and see how things correlate. You shall find this relevant to your interests: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187775031100007X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187775031... (by a former colleague of mine) they claim to get signals that lead the DJIA by 1+ days.
- TheArcane 7y ago80% of the population owns 6.7% of the stock market
- naraga 7y agobut really, what about this sine wave? is this some kind of an error in data?
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- sn41 7y agoThis seems to be measuring the volume of messages with particular keywords on each day. I think that people wishing "happy birthday/thanksgiving/christmas/Valentine's Day" may not actually mean they are happy. (contrast this with a message saying "we're blessed with a new kid" which may denote actual mood.) Most of these generic messages are automatic greetings for particular days. I am not convinced that this actually measures people's moods on particular days.
- saghm 7y agoI think "happy <holiday>" is usually used as a shorthand for "have a happy <holiday>"
- petercooper 7y agoThe same the other way. The day bin Laden died is notably "unhappy" because a lot of people said "dead" or "death" but I do not recall it being seen as a negative event at all.
- sixstringtheory 7y agoI saw the point where Paul Manafort received a guilty verdict, and it is also one of the lower points. My first thought was that it's still a negative situation, so even if people are happy about the outcome, overall it's still a drag. It still brings back all the things that had to happen to get to that point.
- kart23 7y agoYeah. I think an NLP solution would be more accurate in actually analyzing the sentiment of tweets.
- weberc2 7y agoEven then sentiment analysis is comically broken. I was playing with a tool that analyzed Tweets and plugged in a variety of words and phrases. It thought the term “white male” generally had a pretty strong positive sentiment, but on drilling into the Tweets, every single one that it coded positive was actually very disparaging. However, those Tweets were often overtly sarcastic and/or used terms like “privilege” which S.A. models believe to be an indicator of positivity. Some S.A. models think that the term “white” is positive and “black” is negative (probably not a racist conspiracy, but rather because they are too simplistic to understand the racial connotations).
- muhammadusman 7y agothis is cool, overall kind of amazing to see how a whole ecosystem feels even if it's pretty generalized!
- the_arun 7y agoSocial networking sites usually project perceived happiness vs Real happiness. It is hard to measure real happiness - people often wear diplomatic masks on internet to protect their real mood :) Having said that, I get the idea & this could be a great platform if we extend this to other emotions, political swings etc.,
- tekromancr 7y agoI would believe that for any site except twitter.
- furyofantares 7y agoI’ve found myself really wanting this, but for the impossible-to-gather complement of the data — how are people doing when they aren’t consuming social media and news media? I find myself often wondering: is the whole world anxious and confused and sad right now? Or maybe just my country? Or maybe just highly-online folks? Or maybe just my bubble? Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression. But I don’t know how to calibrate at all, I have infinite information available to me and no way to sift through it, and the global marketplace of information seems to mean that anything that attracts attention is either highly biased or a statistical outlier or is otherwise just taking advantage of some human bias that makes it sensational enough to attract eyeballs and spread.
- gmac 7y agoI’ve found myself really wanting this, but for the impossible-to-gather complement of the data — how are people doing when they aren’t consuming social media and news media? My study Mappiness gets closer to that. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wo2M8Z-ULM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wo2M8Z-ULM
- dilippkumar 7y agoI once reasoned that I trust my network of friends, family and colleagues to pass along any information to me that might be relevant to me - as long as I maintain a strong relationship with them - through regular meets, phone calls and texting each other fun memes. I figured that I don’t need to consume any information from untrusted and unvetted sources (cable news, new york times, reddit, wsj, late night tv shows) - so I disconnected myself from all of the modern news sources and chose to live in ignorance. Anecdotally, I feel great. I’m at peace, I still find out everything that’s useful - and I don’t waste cpu cycles in my head on things completely outside my sphere of control. And yes, the whole world is doing really well right now - the way I see it - despite what the TV news anchors yell into the camera every hour.
- monkeynotes 7y ago
- tibbon 7y agoI've often wondered, "Is it just me, or everyone and everything seems to be kinda awful right now?". This points to at least some validity to this idea, or at least as much as the real world reflects onto Twitter. Is the measurement here flawed? Likely. But it's really interesting to see that some Christmases are indeed happier than others
- sixothree 7y agoMy team has made a few comments about this lately. We deal with a lot of other teams and keep coming across levels of rudeness that we would probably not tolerate in our own teams. It feels like something is in the air lately.
- k__ 7y agoSo basically humanity loves new year?
- monkeynotes 7y agoTwitter is at best a representative of people in the West. And only a small subset of those people.
- notfed 7y agoThe reasons why are complicated, but what we know so far is that the words "happy" and "new" and used excessively on this day, from which we conclude that people's moods are unusually positive.
- szaroubi 7y agoVery interesting. The downwards spike of the Trump election is very similar to the upwards spike of xmas day. Nothing more, just an observation.
- okmokmz 7y agoAside from them both being spikes how exactly are they similar, and why would that be interesting? The same could be said about pretty much any spike
- szaroubi 7y agoAt a very high level the spikes seem to be of equal and opposite value. You are correct, there is a lot of variance in the diagram, which makes your comment very valid. My post was very lighthearted and by no means data driven.
- greggeter 7y agoHa -- turn off all days in the filter. Then turn on "Friday" and compare with "Monday"...
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- wscott 7y agoDoesn't seem accurate from my experience. We should have seen a huge downward spike last night when Amazon Prime went down. ;-)
- donutdan4114 7y agoCan we get this data overlayed with the stock market? Correlations?
- airstrike 7y agoThe stock market isn't driven by sentiment alone, and the population of investors isn't the same as the population in this study
- jointpdf 7y agoOne interesting observation: there’s a noticeable gap between average sentiment on Fri/Sat vs. Mon/Tue/Wed (especially when viewing the “Full” trend). Fridays rule—it’s science. I wonder what accounts for the trough between ~2012-2014?
- pvaldes 7y agoI imagine that an army of twitter bots sending automatically thanksgiving messages could mess with the results. A sad event in christmas would be balanced by the global cheering and be perceived as "less sad" by the program than in a common day. The opposite is also possible. That bots can be programmed to create outrage deliberately is not a secret. Outrage means bussiness for newspapers so is a desired goal.
- jolmg 7y agoIf that site's developer is reading this, the top of the page can't be seen when the width is such that the upper links in the navigation bar wrap. For example, at the typical width of my browser, I can't see the years above the graph. I can't scroll high enough to see them.
- taneq 7y agoWhat, no huge downward spike when tumblr banned adult content? :P
- w_t_payne 7y agoHow does this correspond to economic data?
- Grue3 7y agoWhy is the word "gun" listed as a "bad thing"? That seems biased just to make mass shootings seem worse than other disasters/loss of life.