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We Feel Fine: An Almanac Of Human Emotion (2009)

by Sep Kamvar(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1439116830 (ISBN13: 9781439116838)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Scribner

review 1: This amazing book is the product of years of research and dazzling computer programming, browsing tens of thousands of blogs, selecting quotes whenever the writer has used one of the phrases, "I feel" or "I am feeling" and pairing them with the photo that accompanied the post (permission was granted by the authors for everything that appears in this book). The result is a stunning visual catalog of the range of human emotion, cross-referenced wherever possible with data for age, gender, location and even weather. All together, it provides a fascinating insight into feelings and their expression.
review 2: I was asked awhile back if these guys could use one of my pictures for this book (I can't even remember which one at this point), but it eventually got cut. H... moreowever, they were still super nice and sent me a free copy of the book and invited me out to New York for the release party. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this--they had explained what they were trying to do here, but I couldn't quite picture it, until I received my copy in the mail. And I have to say, it's kind of fascinating! It's basically a book of photos and attached text found online, dealing with feelings...and it's also a book of statistics! The statistics are by far my favorite part--who is more likely to express what feeling, connected to which other feelings, at which time of day...it's really interesting! And I like that they include at the end a bit of the code they used to extrapolate all this data from the internet.I'm a little bit blown away by how much work must have gone into this, and by how much detail they managed to get out of it. Fantastic job, guys! less

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