Bloggers’ moods can tell their own tales
Move over mood rings, MoodViews is using data instead of heat to reveal moods.
As I write this the collective mood is calm, mischievous, envious, creative, and cheerful.
MoodGrapher turns the data visual by charting moods, and when combined with other features MoodView also predicts moods, looks for peaks and compares the moods to news, offers a search by date and keyword to find linked moods, and predicts mood prevalence. Although it currently only evaluates LiveJournal users, and those who post moods, it provides the opportunity to have an overview of collective moods in relation to any number of things. Seasonal moods, length of time the moods last, mood fluctuation by holidays and events.
This last category has already been charted for some global events in 2005 and 2006. Worried moods increased during Hurricane Katrina and persisted at a higher level after the natural disaster. Around New Year’s Eve people are more nostalgic, excited, drunk, lonely, and groggy but less frustrated.
I ran a MoodSpotter of my own: Let’s see how people felt when talking about media over the past few months.
February, 2008
Spiked red lines indicate “tired” and the flat yellow is for “bitchy.” Others that showed up on the pie graph were bored, amused, and sleepy.
March, 2008
March was much more active. I left the color key in the screenshot since there were so many, but for easier reading the categories making up the bars are (L to R) accomplished, amused, awake, bitchy, blah, bored, busy, calm, contemplative, lazy, thoughtful, and tired.
April, 2008
Back to simplicity, green is awake, yellow happy, and the flat red line bitchy.
What does this tell us? Nothing really at this level, but it’s fun.