Story Lab worked with The Economist 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…

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

Two years ago x.com/hedonometer/st…

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… )

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

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average happiness for Twitter since March

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

👐🏻👐🏻👐🏻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 Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM or Biomedical Engineering UVM BME, DM for more info.

Proud of the U.S. National Science Foundation & Vermont EPSCoR support for the University of Vermont 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…

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

🎉 Awarded inaugural "best paper" by Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 🎉 journalqd.org/announcement/v…