Measuring and Visualising Global Happiness

Happiness scores from the World Happiness Reports have been examined alongside data from the World Health Organisation and the World Bank to show that happiness is an effective measure of well-being. There is a strong correlation between happiness and GDP and other factors such as years of schooling and life expectancy. Using data from the World Health Organisation and World Bank, the happiness of a nation can be predicted with a RMSE of 0.3. Perhaps, predicting the happiness of a community, nation or industry can help inform interactive digital interventions for happiness building. Possible, such measures could also feature as predictors in affective computing contexts or indeed via social media.

Content

Author and article information

Contributors

Fiona Marshall

Raymond Bond

Shuai Zhang

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

Affiliations

[0001]Ulster University Shore Road, Newtownabbey Co.Antrim, UK. BT370QB

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.210

SO-VID: f61e76f2-be50-421e-9178-4978e043eb7b

License:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

History

Product

1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.210

Self URI (journal page): https://ewic.bcs.org/

REFERENCES

2018 English Oxford Living Dictionaries http://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/happiness (retrieved May 2018
R Khoddam What’s Your Definition of Happiness 2015 http://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-addiction-connection/201506/whats-your-definition-happiness (retrieved May 2018
A.J OswaldWn Stephen 2010 Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the US A. Science 327 576 579
World Happiness Report 2012 2012 http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2012/ (retrieved May 2018
R Easterlin 1974 Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence Paul A. DavidMelvin W. Reder Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramovitz Academic Press, Inc. New York
D. Cameron 2010 PM Speech on Well Being http://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-on-wellbeing (retrieved May 2018
2018 Measures of National Well Being Dashboard http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/measuresofnationalwellbeingdashboard/2018-04-25 (retrieved May 2018
S. Manclossi 2018 Measuring National Well-being: Quality of Life in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/measuringnationalwellbeing/qualityoflifeintheuk2018 (retrieved May 2018
World Happiness Report 2017 2017 http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ (retrieved May 2018
Understanding How Gallup Uses the Cantril Scale http://news.gallup.com/poll/122453/understanding-gallup-uses-cantril-scale.aspx (retrieved May 2018
weichao Xuhou yunhey. s. hungX yuezou ian 2010 Comparison of Spearman’s rho and Kendall’s tau in normal and contaminated normal models Manuscript submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/quageo.2011.30.issue-2/v10117-011-0021-1/v10117-011-0021-1.pdf (retrieved May 2018
JF GentlemanWilk MB Detecting Outliers in a Two-Way Table: Statistical Behaviour of Residuals, Technometrics 17 1975
A GhamesiS Zahediasl Normality Test for Statistical Analysis, A Guide for Non-Satisticians 2012 Int J Endocrinol Metab 10 486 489

Comments

Comment on this article

[1] 2018 English Oxford Living Dictionaries http://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/happiness (retrieved May 2018

[2] R Khoddam What’s Your Definition of Happiness 2015 http://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-addiction-connection/201506/whats-your-definition-happiness (retrieved May 2018

[3] A.J OswaldWn Stephen 2010 Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the US A. Science 327 576 579

[4] World Happiness Report 2012 2012 http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2012/ (retrieved May 2018

[5] R Easterlin 1974 Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence Paul A. DavidMelvin W. Reder Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Moses Abramovitz Academic Press, Inc. New York

[6] D. Cameron 2010 PM Speech on Well Being http://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-on-wellbeing (retrieved May 2018

[7] 2018 Measures of National Well Being Dashboard http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/measuresofnationalwellbeingdashboard/2018-04-25 (retrieved May 2018

[8] S. Manclossi 2018 Measuring National Well-being: Quality of Life in the UK http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/wellbeing/articles/measuringnationalwellbeing/qualityoflifeintheuk2018 (retrieved May 2018

[9] World Happiness Report 2017 2017 http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ (retrieved May 2018

[10] Understanding How Gallup Uses the Cantril Scale http://news.gallup.com/poll/122453/understanding-gallup-uses-cantril-scale.aspx (retrieved May 2018

[11] weichao Xuhou yunhey. s. hungX yuezou ian 2010 Comparison of Spearman’s rho and Kendall’s tau in normal and contaminated normal models Manuscript submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/quageo.2011.30.issue-2/v10117-011-0021-1/v10117-011-0021-1.pdf (retrieved May 2018

[12] JF GentlemanWilk MB Detecting Outliers in a Two-Way Table: Statistical Behaviour of Residuals, Technometrics 17 1975

[13] A GhamesiS Zahediasl Normality Test for Statistical Analysis, A Guide for Non-Satisticians 2012 Int J Endocrinol Metab 10 486 489

Celebrating 65 years of The Computer Journal - free-to-read perspectives - bcs.org/tcj65