Measuring happiness & frustration using data science in the cloud

Researchers at The Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to push the state of the art in data science to better understand what makes us happy, angry and frustrated. "Our research seeks to try and measure aspects of the world that we, as humans, are hugely aware of but that traditionally we've had near to no numbers on," says Suzy Moat, an associate professor of behavioral science at Warwick Business School and a Turing Fellow. For example, many people believe that the environment they spend their time in profoundly impacts their day-to-day well-being. Until recently, however, scientists lacked the data to test this hypothesis, Moat explained. Now, the world is awash in data along with the computing resources to quantitatively analyze what settings make people happy.