Moodgrapher — Global events
Moodgrapher gives a graphical representation of the moods reported by LiveJournal users in their posts. One of the interesting phenomena revealed by Moodgrapher is the effect of global events on the global mood. Below we list a number of examples.
- Loved, that's what many bloggers felt around Valentine's Day 2006, while there were increased levels of flirty-ness and loneliness
- A broad spectrum of moods is observed around New Year's Day 2006, with unprecedented levels of nostalgia, drunkenness, contemplation, and hopefulness
- Unseen levels of happiness around Christmas 2005
- Thankful, hungry, and full around Thanksgiving 2005
- Scaredness around Halloween 2005
- Mass increase in the level of worriedness around major weather phenomena, such as hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005
- Excitedness around global media and culture events, such as the release of a new Harry Potter book on July 15, 2005
- Mass increase in the level of distress and sadness after terror attacks, as witnessed by the response to the London bombings on July 7, 2005