BigDataFr recommends: Measuring Social Well Being in The Big Data Era: Asking or Listening?
The literature on well being measurement seems to suggest that « asking » for a self-evaluation is the only way to estimate a complete and reliable measure of well being. At the same time « not asking » is the only way to avoid biased evaluations due to self-reporting. Here we propose a method for estimating the welfare perception of a community simply « listening » to the conversations on Social Network Sites. The Social Well Being Index (SWBI) and its components are proposed through to an innovative technique of supervised sentiment analysis called iSA which scales to any language and big data.[…]
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Matteo Curti, Stefano Iacus, Giuseppe Porro, Elena Siletti
Source: arxiv.org