Hedonometer measures ‘Happyness’

August 5th, 2009

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Hedonometer or the ‘Happiness Meter’ is a device that measures the level of happiness amongst the blogger and  twitter users. The device has been developed by Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth, scientists from Vermont. The software analyzes blogs and tweets to find out the happiest and the saddest days in the last few years.

“We wanted to capitalize on the explosion of blogs and now Twitter to build an instrument that would give us some measure of the emotional signal from a large collective of people,” said Peter Dodds, a researcher at the University of Vermont and co-author of a new paper in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

“All this new data is basically helping us gain insight into (more…)

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