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Weather impacts expressed sentiment

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, April 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
41 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
333 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages

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Title
Weather impacts expressed sentiment
Published in
PLOS ONE, April 2018
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.

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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%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 578. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2023.
All research outputs
#40,938
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#670
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Outputs of similar age
#920
of 340,250 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#13
of 3,455 outputs
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