The happiness paradox: your friends are happier than you

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Bollen, Johan ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^b   van de Leemput, Ingrid ^c   Ruan, Guangchen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

data science; friendship paradox; natural language processing; sentiment analysis; social media; social network; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

DATA SCIENCE; FRIENDSHIP PARADOX; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; WELL BEING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85019394310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds/s13688-017-0100-1     Document Type: Article

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