Slide Set 045: Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations


Building lexical meters to measure things

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Episode 1: Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations (4:45:16)

Clip 1: Happiness: Intro (6:51)

Clip 2: Financial hotdogs (1:45)

Clip 3: Measurement matters (8:32)

Clip 4: Data and theories (0:58)

Clip 5: Measuring happiness: An overview of efforts (25:52)

Clip 6: A few words on word shifts (1:34)

Clip 7: Building our first hedonometer (9:40)

Clip 8: Lexical meters using words: We try ANEW (don't use ANEW) (20:43)

Clip 9: Basic lexical meter (with Michael Jackson) (8:33)

Clip 10: A foray into music lyrics (5:55)

Clip 11: A first attempt at word shifts (7:33)

Clip 12: More music lyrics (3:46)

Clip 13: Blogs, wefeelfine, ... (5:56)

Clip 14: Gallup wellbeing (3:09)

Clip 15: Words as lenses (5:30)

Clip 16: Word shift calculation (10:45)

Clip 17: Age and happiness (7:59)

Clip 18: Latitude (0:42)

Clip 19: Male/Female happiness (1:37)

Clip 20: Presidents (4:45)

Clip 21: Mechanical Turk (13:14)

Clip 22: Early Twitter artifacts (2:07)

Clip 23: hahahahahahahahaha (4:50)

Clip 24: Tweet features (1:50)

Clip 25: The daily and weekly unravelling of the human mind (5:40)

Clip 26: Twitter happiness time series (17:27)

Clip 27: Word shifts for major days (5:19)

Clip 28: Ambient happiness (9:04)

Clip 29: Accidental opinion polls (14:11)

Clip 30: Correlated happiness (3:40)

Clip 31: The very surprisingly tunable hedonometer (10:28)

Clip 32: Another view of stop words: Geodesics of happiness (6:03)

Clip 33: hedonometer.org, Iceland, interactive wordshifts, and quokkas (12:20)

Clip 34: Why labMT is powerful (7:14)

Clip 35: Geography of happiness: States (6:18)

Clip 36: Geography of happiness: Cities (5:41)

Clip 37: Reactions: Today Show, Ellen, more (7:15)

Clip 38: Movement and happiness (7:16)

Clip 39: Expanding to six emotions (7:06)