Slide Set 19: Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations


Building lexical meters to measure things

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Covered in these episodes:


19g: Happiness: Intro (6:51)

19h: Financial hotdogs (1:45)

19i: Measurement matters (8:32)

19k: Data and theories (0:58)

19l: Measuring happiness: An overview of efforts (25:52)

20a: A few words on word shifts (1:34)

20f: Building our first hedonometer (9:40)

20g: Lexical meters using words: We try ANEW (don't use ANEW) (20:43)

20h: Basic lexical meter (with Michael Jackson) (8:33)

20i: A foray into music lyrics (5:55)

20j: A first attempt at word shifts (7:33)

20k: More music lyrics (3:46)

20l: Blogs, wefeelfine, ... (5:56)

21e: Words as lenses (5:30)

21f: Word shift calculation (10:45)

21g: Age and happiness (7:59)

21h: Latitude (0:42)

21i: Male/Female happiness (1:37)

21j: Presidents (4:45)

21k: Mechanical Turk (13:14)

21l: Early Twitter artifacts (2:07)

21m: hahahahahahahahaha (4:50)

21n: Tweet features (1:50)

21o: The daily and weekly unravelling of the human mind (5:40)

22d: Twitter happiness time series (17:27)

22e: Word shifts for major days (5:19)

22f: Ambient happiness (9:04)

22g: Accidental opinion polls (14:11)

22h: Correlated happiness (3:40)

22i: The very surprisingly tunable hedonometer (10:28)

23f: Another view of stop words: Geodesics of happiness (6:03)

23g: hedonometer.org, Iceland, interactive wordshifts, and quokkas (12:20)

23h: Why labMT is powerful (7:14)

23i: Geography of happiness: States (6:18)

23j: Geography of happiness: Cities (5:41)

23k: Reactions: Today Show, Ellen, more (7:15)

23l: Movement and happiness (7:16)

23m: Expanding to six emotions (7:06)