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Principal Investigators: Siqi Zheng (lead)
Researchers: Yuchen Chai, Yichun Fan, Nicolas Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Ajkel Mino, Juan Palacios, Jianghao Wang
Year: 2022
Topics: Climate and Sustainable Real Estate

This project evaluates the emotional toll of environmental threats using novel Natural Language Processing to extract Sentiment and Topics from Social Media.

Questions Answered

  • How did the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affect well-being as measured on social media?
  • What is the emotional toll of climate change?
  • How does air pollution impact people emotionally and does this vary in different situations?

Global Sentiment