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Abstract: Shrinking cities have gained a generally negative image in the traditional media and popular consciousness, while at the same time the use of so-called Big Data for policy and planning purposes has exploded. This thesis explores the use of Big Data in the form of micro-blog sentiment analysis to determine if there are differences between shrinking and growing cities in terms of subjective ... read morewell-being. Furthermore, it lays the groundwork for a deeper understanding of what type of subjective well-being a Twitter sentiment analysis is truly measuring, rather than relying on the assumption that happiness can be gauged with a single metric. My results demonstrate that there is some crossover between a traditional form of subjective well-being measurement and a tweet sentiment analysis. I also suggest that the traditional metric and micro-blog figures are each measuring one of the distinct forms of subjective well-being as described by the positive psychologists.
Thesis (M.A.)--Tufts University, 2015.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Justin Hollander.
Committee: Henry Renski.
Keyword: Urban planning.read less
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