This is a pretty beautiful site, We Feel Fine. org, with the emphasis on the beauty in the feeling. Feeling whatever we’re writing about, that is. This is a site that’s been around since 2006, collecting blog content that contains the word “feel” in it. It depicts the blog extraction as a floating shapes of feeling which shows the person’s location, weather, and emotion while hovering, and their actual words when the shape is clicked.
This amazing search engine and artistic endeavor was created by Sepandar D. Kamvar (Stanford University) and Jonathan Harris (Number 27.org) as a timely depiction of the world mood as shown through the blog world. Here’s their paper, which they presented at WSDM 2011, that describes the intent of this project. It’s amazing to see that data can be portrayed in such a beautifully impactful way that shows the volume and the emotions of its research simultaneously. It’s this type of data research that can be truly useful, because it can start to understand the true importance of human emotion in our everyday lives.
– found through OFFF2011
