Emotiglobe

About The Globe

Emotiglobe is a visual representation of how the world is feeling right now.

The lines drawn in specific geographic locations reveal if people are happy or sad. The bigger the line is, the more intense emotions are in that area. Red lines show negative levels of happiness and green lines positive levels.

Created by Makis Tracend

The Algorithm

The app is continiously reading Twitter's live stream trying to find emoticons that reveal emotions. Although basic in its implementation it's proven to be quite accurate and the main focus is to improve the emoticon logic as the app is updated.

The Source

You can find the full source code at Github and you are free to fork and send in pull requests if you can make improvements: http://github.com/makesites/emotiglobe/

Thanks!

To K&D Interactive for providing the hosting of this experiment.

The developers that created the necessary modules and those that have contributed with their comments and/or code in the development of this idea, namely @ryndel

Google and Chrome Experiments for pushing the envelope on WebGL.

And to all of you that visited the website :)

Fork on Github