About HedonometerTo quantify the happiness of the atoms of language, we merged the 5,000 most frequent words from a collection of four corpora: Google Books, New York Times articles, Music Lyrics, and Twitter messages, resulting in a composite set of roughly 10,000 unique words. Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, we had each of these words scored on a nine point scale of happiness: (1) sad to (9) happy. You can explore the average scores of each word on our words page, or download the entire list from the publication supplement ...To quantify the happiness of the atoms of language, we merged the 5,000 most frequent words from a collection of four corpora: Google Books, New York Times articles, Music Lyrics, and Twitter messages, resulting in a composite set of roughly 10,000 unique words. Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, we had each of these words scored on a nine point scale of happiness: (1) sad to (9) happy. Hedonometer TeamHT_f15064c2-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6abHedonometer.org is based on the research of Peter Dodds and Chris Danforth and their team in UVM's Computational Story Lab, including visualization by Andy Reagan, at the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, and the technology of Brian Tivnan, Matt McMahon and their team from The MITRE Corporation.Jonathan HarrisAnd special thanks go to Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar for their initial inspiration.Sep KamvarUniversity of Vermont Complex Systems CenterUVM Computational Story Lab Peter DoddsChris DanforthAndi Elledge Sharon AlajajianNicholas AllgaierCatherine BlissMelody BurkinsEric ClarkEmily CodyKameron Decker HarrisSuma DesuMike FoleyMorgan FrankBill GottesmanIsabel KloumannPaul LessardLewis MitchellKate MorrowEitan PechenickMichael PellonAaron PowersAndy ReaganMatt TretinLindsay Van LeirJake WilliamsMITREThe MITRE Team:Brian TivnanMatt McMahonIvan RamiscalMike ShadidPete CarriganZach FurnessZoe HenscheidGarry JacynaMatt KoehlerKarine Megerdoomian_f1506634-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6abTo measure the happiness of large populations in real time._f1506724-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6abHappinessIt's what most people say they want. So how do we know how happy people are?UnderstandingYou can't improve or understand what you can't measure. In a blow to happiness, we're very good at measuring economic indices and this means we tend to focus on them.ImprovementMeasurementWith hedonometer.org we've created an instrument that measures the happiness of large populations in real time.Online ExpressionsMeasure how people present themselves to the outside world in online expressions._f15067e2-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6abOur hedonometer is based on people's online expressions, capitalizing on data-rich social media, and we're measuring how people present themselves to the outside world.TwitterUse Twitter to measure online presentation._f15068aa-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6ab1For our first version of hedonometer.org, we're using Twitter as a source but in principle we can expand to any data source in any language ... hedonometer.org currently measures Twitter's Gardenhose feed, a random sampling of roughly 50 million (10%) of all messages posted to the service, comprising 100GB of JSON each day. Words in messages written in English are thrown into a large bag (containing roughly 100 million words per day), and the bag is assigned a happiness score based on the average happiness score of the words contained within.APIDevelop an API._f150694a-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6ab2We'll also be adding an API soon.Other SourcesInclude text from other online sources._f15069d6-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6ab3We will soon be including text from other online sources including Google Trends (what people are searching for), bit.ly (what people are viewing online), and the BBC (what people are reading), which will serve as different lenses through which to explore societal trends.Other EmotionsBuild a large-scale database of word-based measures for emotions other than happiness and sadness._f1506a76-dc74-11e4-9f54-44266bbdd6ab4We are currently building a large-scale database of word-based measures for emotions other than happiness and sadness such as fear, anger, and surprise. We intend to incorporate these emotions into future versions of the hedonometer.2015-04-06http://hedonometer.org/about.htmlOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net