Title |
Weather impacts expressed sentiment
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, April 2018
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0195750 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, James H. Fowler |
Abstract |
We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a half billion social media posts from tens of millions of individuals from both Facebook and Twitter between 2009 and 2016. We find that cold temperatures, hot temperatures, precipitation, narrower daily temperature ranges, humidity, and cloud cover are all associated with worsened expressions of sentiment, even when excluding weather-related posts. We compare the magnitude of our estimates with the effect sizes associated with notable historical events occurring within our data. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 57 | 17% |
Spain | 33 | 10% |
United Kingdom | 17 | 5% |
France | 13 | 4% |
Australia | 8 | 2% |
Canada | 8 | 2% |
Brazil | 7 | 2% |
Germany | 6 | 2% |
Argentina | 6 | 2% |
Other | 42 | 13% |
Unknown | 136 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 218 | 65% |
Scientists | 105 | 32% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 2% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 1% |
Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Unknown | 164 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 22% |
Researcher | 27 | 16% |
Student > Master | 16 | 10% |
Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 6 | 4% |
Other | 24 | 15% |
Unknown | 40 | 24% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Computer Science | 13 | 8% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 12 | 7% |
Psychology | 12 | 7% |
Engineering | 12 | 7% |
Social Sciences | 9 | 5% |
Other | 55 | 34% |
Unknown | 51 | 31% |