Emotional Landscape
Places are emotional, but how can this emotion be represented?
One way is to consider the sum of news articles relating to an area as an indication of a places current emotion.
So for this idea to work, news articles would need to be rated as either good or bad and be associated with a particular area, perhaps a county. Obviously there are certain problems with such a classification.
However ideally, a google map overlay could be created to indicate the current emotional state of, say, each individual county.
This would lead to stats such as the happiest county today or the saddest county this year etc etc.
In this sense the UK could be described by an emotional landscape, represented by a map.
Not only news but weather reports could also contribute to the emotional state of an area.
other problem - each good or bad news report would need to be measured for severity or importance etc to give a good measure of emotional state of an area.
Its a bit of a gimmick idea, but might be cool.
anyway im enjoying reading all the ideas and prototypes, this is a great site. Keep it up.
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