What the world is feeling: Incredible interactive Emotion map analyses tweets to create a live global mood
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It is an incredible indicator of how the world is feeling - and how our emotions can change in an instant.
Australian researchers today revealed a live emotion map than can analyse tweets in real time.
The 'We Feel' site looks for up to 600 specific words in a stream of around 27 million tweets per day.
To see the live emotion map click here
How the world is feeling: The map can show live the emotions being tweeted about around the world. In this case, joy is the most popular, accounting for almost 15% of global tweets.
HOW IT WORKS
We Feel looks for up to 600 specific words in a stream of around 27 million tweets per day.
It then maps them to a hierarchy of emotions which includes love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear
Researchers from Black Dog Institute and Australian research agency CSIRO created the map.
It analyses the words from millions of tweets to display a real-time view of our emotions.
'We Feel will help researchers understand how our emotions fluctuate over time due to changes in social, economic and environmental factors such as weather, time of day, news of a natural disaster or political instability,' the team say.
It is hoped the tool could help understand how our collective mood changes and could help monitor community mental health and predict where services need to be assigned.
Professor Helen Christensen, Black Dog Institute Director, says We Feel represents the world's first foray into understanding how social media can be used to detect poor mental health and observe shifts according to time and place.
Users can even zoom in to see their own region - for instance this tweet shows mentions of Love in North America
'The power of this information cannot be underestimated, she said.
'Currently, mental health researchers and associated public health programs use population data that can be over five years old.
'Should the real-time data gained using this incredible tool prove accurate, we will have the unique opportunity to monitor the emotional state of people across different geographical areas and ultimately predict when and where potentially life-saving services are required.'
All you need is love: At this time, over 3.1 million tweets containing the word love were sent.
'We Feel looks for up to 600 specific words in a stream of around 27 million tweets per day and maps them to a hierarchy of emotions which includes love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear,' said Dr Cecile Paris, Research leader in language and social computing at CSIRO's Digital Productivity and Services Flagship.
'You can explore emotion and trends on a minute by minute time scale, across locations around the globe and gender to further refine the results.'
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