The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter Sentiment and Expression, Demographics, and Objective Characteristics of Place

被引：215

作者：

Mitchell, Lewis ^{[1
,2
]}

Frank, Morgan R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Harris, Kameron Decker ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Dodds, Peter Sheridan ^{[1
,2
]}

Danforth, Christopher M. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Vermont, Dept Math & Stat, Computat Story Lab, Vermont Complex Syst Ctr, Burlington, VT 05405 USA

[2] Univ Vermont, Vermont Adv Comp Core, Burlington, VT USA

[3] Univ Washington, Dept Appl Math, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2013年 / 8卷 / 05期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

BODY-MASS-INDEX; OBESITY; POVERTY; GROWTH; LIFE; FAT;

D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0064417

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

We conduct a detailed investigation of correlations between real-time expressions of individuals made across the United States and a wide range of emotional, geographic, demographic, and health characteristics. We do so by combining (1) a massive, geo-tagged data set comprising over 80 million words generated in 2011 on the social network service Twitter and (2) annually-surveyed characteristics of all 50 states and close to 400 urban populations. Among many results, we generate taxonomies of states and cities based on their similarities in word use; estimate the happiness levels of states and cities; correlate highly-resolved demographic characteristics with happiness levels; and connect word choice and message length with urban characteristics such as education levels and obesity rates. Our results show how social media may potentially be used to estimate real-time levels and changes in population-scale measures such as obesity rates.

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