Thursday, April 28, 2016

Heat makes us angry

This clever researcher analyzed language and emoticons in billions of tweets and correlated it with ambient temperature. 
He also found we feel blue on Mondays. 

http://patrickbaylis.com/files/Baylis_JMP.pdf

Reminds me of a New York Times story where rising heat was linked to murder crimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/nyregion/19murder.html

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