Improving the happiness index
After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from theRead More…
After my talk at Oxford Geek Night I was happy to have a couple of suggestions to see if the algorithm could produce better results. One was to remove retweets from theRead More…
After moving down to Oxford I did an update of my Birmingham Emotions conversational psychogeography project. That’s now quite simple as I have built a ‘happy monitor’ that can centre anywhere. I’mRead More…
I’ve been running a, very rough, scrape of the Birmingham (UK) based interweb for ’emotional wellbeing’ since April of 2008. Simply put a script running twice a day read in Tweets, newsRead More…
A wonderful and quick mash-up of Twitter and Flickr data, mapped with Yahoo, BrumEmoMap is a great example of the first thread of my Conversational Psychogeography idea. It allows people to tagRead More…
Psychogeography can be sort of explained as the geography of emotion, the relation between place and feeling. The first attempt to formalise it was in the 50’s by various Lettritsts and whileRead More…