Twittermoods: Visualizing Moody Americans with Twitter
When you can’t come up with enough words to power a blog post, there’s nothing like a captivating picture or a cool video. Thankfully, this past week a group of researchers from Northeastern and Harvard universities pulled together data from Twitter to present a visualization of how Americans feel throughout the day and the week. Crunching the numbers from 300 million tweets, a word list, U.S. Census Bureau data, Google Maps API and more, they came up with some insights and pretty colors representing where and when a Debbie Downer or Happy Harry mood sets in.
The study is called Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter, and here are the pretty colors you have been waiting for, which should put you on the way towards green/happy for at least a while…
