spreading jam

Clever folks from Harvard have tracked 300 million tweets over a 3 year period to find out the mood of the USA during various hours throughout the day. Excluding the various disparities between the mornings and evening of different states (and all the other various inferences they must have made), this is an interesting study into the data driven world we now live in.

Don’t be put off by one of their conclusions – people are happier on weekends (space pen vs. pencil, anyone?).

The more we can record about our daily lives, the more we can find out about ourselves. And the better decisions we can make. The website Daytum is another visual example of how we could capture this information.

Have a look at this interesting article from the NY Times for more about the data driven life here