Visualization of Real Time Moods
We have previously discussed visualization techniques of moods and emotions. We have used “We Feel Fine” data mining engine to uncover what the year 2007 holds for people as they write about their feelings in blogs. Moodgrapher helped us to follow emotions during symbolic dates as Valentine or tragic events as the one of Hurricane Katrina. We have also analyzed the development of “emoticons” and what they reflect.
With the ability to track feelings on real time we can further extend our knowledge:
Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in Boston and colleagues followed emotions expressed in Twitter’s tweets.
They have found that the west coast is happier than the east coast, and across the country happiness peaks during early morning time. Unsurprisingly, people are happier during weekends.
Method:
1. The researchers analyzed 300 million public tweets of claimed US Twitter users, posted between September 2006 and August 2009.
2. They ranked words according to a psychological word-rating system (Affective Norms for English Words) which can distinguish between positive and negative words.
3. The researchers calculated the average mood score of all the users living in a state hour by hour and so created a timed series of mood maps. They morphed the maps so that the size of each county reflected the number of Twitter users living there.
Have a look at the map (video) to learn how different emotions (green represents happier emotions) are washing the nation east to west throughout the day – and notice the three hours time delay effect.
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July 27th, 2010 at 12:52 am
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Increíble análisis basado en los estados anímicos a través de seguimiento de palabras clave y emoticonos. [link to post]
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July 27th, 2010 at 1:16 pm
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Visualization of Real-Time Mood spotting – using tweets to determine the mood pulse of the nation ([link to post])
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July 28th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
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Visualization of Real Time Moods from Twitter [link to post]
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July 31st, 2010 at 8:25 am
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RT @TrendsSpotting: Twitter mood analysis: people are happier early morning, during weekends, and on the west coast [link to post]
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:20 am
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I can relate RT:@TrendsSpotting Twitter mood analysis: people happier early morning, weekends & on the west coast [link to post]
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:21 am
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apparently we’re happier early morning and on the west coast [link to post]
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:22 am
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Twitter mood analysis: people are happier early morning, during weekends, and on the west coast [link to post]
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August 13th, 2010 at 2:55 am
very nice and informative post about Visualization of Real Time Moods from Twitter.
August 17th, 2010 at 12:32 am
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RT @TrendsSpotting Visualization of Real Time Moods [link to post] Mapping the emotions expressed in Twitter’s tweets
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August 17th, 2010 at 1:22 am
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RT @rreitsma: RT @TrendsSpotting Visualization of Real Time Moods [link to post] Mapping the emotions expressed in Twitter’s tweets
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August 26th, 2010 at 9:08 am
That’s a really cool infographic!
August 30th, 2010 at 9:39 am
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Apparently west coast is happier than east, and FL is always happy! RT @TrendsSpotting Visualization of Real Time Moods [link to post]
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August 30th, 2010 at 10:25 am
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RT @TrendsSpotting Visualization of Real Time Moods [link to post] /via @themaria
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August 30th, 2010 at 11:37 am
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Happier on the West Coast? I believe it. RT @TrendsSpotting Visualization of Real Time Moods [link to post]
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August 31st, 2010 at 5:50 am
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Moodgrapher tracks moods daily via tweet linguistics and emoticons – [link to post] RT @trendsspotting #socialmedia #psychology
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September 11th, 2010 at 1:19 am
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No surprise here – Twitter mood analysis shows that ppl are happier in the mornings & on weekends [link to post] (via @TrendsSpotting)
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September 29th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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Visualization of Real Time Moods, [link to post]
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September 30th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Interesting visualisation of real time moods…though I’m not usually happier in the mornings!
October 15th, 2010 at 2:05 am
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October 17th, 2010 at 6:33 am
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Visualization of Real Time Moods – [link to post]
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