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Yesterday was the saddest day in the history of @Twitter

🎉 Awarded inaugural "best paper" by @journalqd 🎉 journalqd.org/announcement/v…

🌟Exciting news!🌟Our paper, "Expecting the Unexpected: Predicting Panic Attacks from Mood, Twitter, and Apple Watch Data," is now out in @IEEEembs OJEMB.🧠 Over 28% of adults have experienced panic attacks; we dive into new ways to predict & prevent them: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10399…

Proud of the @NSF & @vermont_epscor support for the @uvmvermont people and partners using data science and digital humanities methods to better understand and harness the power of stories. Maybe this moment will register clearly on the @hedonometer! uvm.edu/news/story/uvm…

👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻Super excited about our big new longitudinal wearables study exploring sleep, mental health, exercise, nature experiences, more🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 We have funding for a PhD student in Complex Systems & Data Science @uvmcomplexity or Biomedical Engineering @uvm_bme, DM for more info.

Hedonometer app for the iPhone! Big thanks to @OttoBerkes for surprising us with this exciting development following his inspired weekend coding effort. apps.apple.com/app/id16417103…

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average happiness for Twitter since March

"If politicians want to curb global unhappiness, they can start by monitoring systematically how people feel.” economist.com/by-invitation/…

To me, the most quintessential #dataviz of the last 25 years: number27.org/wefeelfine by @jjh_works Seamless & fluid ux, blending charts & other content, interesting data with live updates, personal stories (forest+trees), particles, sketchy rendering… (sadly offline… )

Two years ago twitter.com/hedonometer/st…

The shock of Uvalde. Happiness-sadness time series at the 15 minute scale on Twitter:

Interactive word shifts: Sandy Hook: hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_… Uvalde: hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_…

The horrific elementary school shootings at Sandy Hook and Uvalde. Almost ten years apart. The collective negative emotional reactions on Twitter have very similar word use patterns. Through Hedonometer’s lens: The story is the same.

A few (of a long list of) caveats: Through Twitter, the Hedonometer gives a “distant measure” of a population. We’re grouping tweets by language only, not geography. And Twitter is a complicated space of people and not-people.

Some of the top words driving Ukrainian down translate to ‘crimes’ and ‘murders’ and ‘hell’ and ‘i hate’. hedonometer.org/timeseries/uk_…

The war crime story is being talked about on Russian Twitter.

Story Lab worked with @TheEconomist to help with an analysis of Russian language social media (Twitter and VK). The article will appear in this week’s edition, and is available here (subscription required): economist.com/graphic-detail…