{"id":74642,"date":"2012-07-03T11:58:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=74642"},"modified":"2012-07-03T12:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:02:24","slug":"foodmood-tracks-twitter-to-identify-a-food-emotion-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/foodmood-tracks-twitter-to-identify-a-food-emotion-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"FoodMood Tracks Twitter to Identify a Food-Emotion Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re on Twitter you see food tweets all day long.<\/p>\n

\u201cBest. Burger. Ever.\u201d\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m so ashamed, I can\u2019t believe I just ate a whole pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese cupcakes are making my Monday!\u201d<\/p>\n

We love or hate our food and we like to talk about it. Due to these truths a new group has decided to use tweets to create a powerful infographic about our food consumption and its impact on our emotions.<\/p>\n

FoodMood<\/a><\/strong> is a project that has created a graphic based off of food tweets. In a nutshell, they used Twitter to establish what people are eating and how they feel about it. FoodMood then overlaps the data with the current Gross Domestic Product information and the current obesity data<\/a><\/strong> to create a very user-friendly and helpful guide. Users can see the trends with a simple glance. This info allows for a deeper understanding of our eating habits.<\/p>\n

The info is interesting. According to FoodMood the \u201chappiest\u201d food is lobster followed closely by cake. Snacks tend to be the most unhappy foods. Apparently, lobster tweets are always happy and we\u2019re not praising our snacks at all.<\/p>\n

What does all of this easy-to-read data have to do with the obesity trends<\/a><\/strong>? According to the FoodMood website, they believe their tool shows connections in our consumption that others have failed to notice before.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a sentiment analysis tool, FoodMood develops a more informed global picture about food and emotion<\/a><\/strong>. As a data visualization project, FoodMood shows the connections, patterns and relationships that exist between the variables \u2014 insights that are otherwise practically infeasible. Ultimately, FoodMood helps reveal a hidden layer of digital and social data that pushes the boundaries of awareness and understanding of our surroundings one step further.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As of right now, FoodMood only uses English tweets. As they expand they hope to provide a true global picture of the connection between our food and our emotions. Danielle Gould at foodandtechconnect.com laid out some great stats that FoodMood has gathered:<\/p>\n