This book presents advanced methodologies for analyzing attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine across 10 countries spanning both the Northern and Sout...

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A new study published in PLOS One looked at reactions to macro-level shocks and re-examination of adaptation theory using Big Data &ldquo...

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In global news, groundbreaking research by University of Johannesburg researchers on the effects of macroeconomic shocks on happiness levels in countries applying Big Data and Machine Learning.

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The emotions Anger, Disgust and Fear, increased far above average levels with the announcement of stage 6 load-shedding, and the Happiness of South Af...

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In April 2019, the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index was launched. This index relies on Big Data and measures the evaluative mood of a nation in re...

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Hein Kaiser on MixFM - 360 Brunch Interview Interview: 17 Jan 2021 11h01

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SAfm Interview: 13 Jan 2021 08h13

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Figure 1: Number of Vaccine related tweets (7 day moving average)

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702 Interview: 9 Jan 2021 09h36

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SAfm Interview: 6 Jan 2021 08h21

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GNH (Gross National Happiness) over the festive season

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Basic outline:
1.    What is Happiness Economics?
2.    Why is it important to measure happiness?
3.    Big Data
4.    Twitter
5.    Gross National Happiness Index
6.    Descriptive analysis
7.    Results of Covid-19 and lockdown on happiness
8.    Policy implications

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After 102 days without community transmission, New Zealand is once again grappling with increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases. The return to level 3 lo...

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Results of the Gross National Happiness study show that South Africans appear to be happier to be at home than they were at the start of lockdown, but there were other perplexing findings, writes Melanie Verwoerd. 

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On 27 March 2020, South Africa went into “lockdown”. These lockdown regulations were implemented to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus ...

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Investigating[1] the effect of COVID-19 cases on the happiness levels of South Africans, researchers found that before the implementation of the &ldqu...

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In a preliminary investigation[1] to determine what matters for South Africans’ happiness during the pandemic, the results show that the cumulat...

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