Title	Measuring Well-Being Using Social Media
Creator	Ungar, Lyle
Contributor	Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Date Issued	2017-03-10
Description	Social media such as Twitter and Facebook provide a rich, if imperfect portal onto people’s lives. We analyze tens of millions of Facebook posts and billions of tweets to study variation in language use with age, gender, personality, and mental and physical well-being. Word clouds visually illustrate the big five personality traits (e.g., “What is it like to be neurotic?”), while correlations between language use and county level health data suggest connections between health and happiness, including potential psychological causes of heart disease.
Subject	Social media; Well-being; Technology
Type	Moving Image
Language	eng
Date Available	2017-03-24
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0343320
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/60994
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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