The mood of the Internet

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Recovered from the New Year Moodgrapher detected not unexpectedly a large peak in the drunk mood on New Years Day. After that the usual weekend peak in drunk remained below the usual level. Time is on the x-axis and the y-axis shows the deviation com ...
Recovered from the New Year? Moodgrapher detected, not unexpectedly, a large peak in the 'drunk' mood on New Years Day. After that the usual weekend peak in 'drunk' remained below the usual level. Time is on the x-axis and the y-axis shows the deviation compared to the usual observations (left) and the fraction of the messages with the 'drunk’ mood (right).
Dutch researcher Maarten de Rijke and his co-workers Gilad Mishne and Krisztian Balog have developed a new programme that can trace and explain significant changes in mood patterns on the Internet. MoodViews is a collection of instruments that maps the mood of bloggers as they write their message.


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