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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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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Discussion | South Africans remain unhappy in lockdown

South African’s levels of hourly happiness, after President Ramaphosa’s level four lockdown restriction speech (23 April 2020), decreased ...

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SA is 'angry' amid lockdown and downgrade woes In this edition of the Business Day Spotlight, we look at how South Africans are feeling about...

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South Africans are “angry” after their first weekend under lockdown. COVID-19 has been playing havoc with South African’s emotions o...

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The Happiness Index (Gross National Happiness) of South Africa, dropped to an all-time low of 5.29 (see yellow arrow), since the first Corona patient ...

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Well-being economists Professor Talita Greyling, from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and Dr Stephanié Rossouw, from Auckland University of Technology, have shared the latest Happiness Index, which shows a significant low in South Africa as a result of Covid-19.

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SA generally unhappy in the wake of COVID-19