Resources

Example Papers

• Diurnal and Seasonal Mood Vary with Work, Sleep, and Daylength Across Diverse Cultures
  Scott A. Golder, Michael W. Macy
  http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6051/1878.abstract
• Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market
  Matthew J. Salganik, Peter Sheridan Dodds, Duncan J. Watts
  https://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.pdf
• Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks
  Adam D. I. Kramera, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock
  http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
• THE COST OF RACIAL ANIMUS ON A BLACK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: USING GOOGLE SEARCH DATA TO FIND WHAT SURVEYS MISS
  Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  http://sethsd.com/
• The Paradox of Publicity: How Awards Can Negatively Affect the Evaluation of Quality
  Kovacs, Balazs and Amanda Sharkey
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2350768
• A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
  Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle & James H. Fowler
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7415/full/nature11421.html
• Information, Community, and Action: How Nonprofit Organizations Use Social Media
  Kristen Lovejoy and Gregory D. Saxton
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2039815
• Giving up Twitter for Lent: How and Why We Take Breaks from Social Media
  Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck
  http://yardi.people.si.umich.edu/pubs/Schoenebeck_SocialMediaBreaks14.pdf

Data Sources

Some gateway sources for querying data on cultural trends:

• Google search trends
• Google N Gram - books
• NYT Chronicle - New York Times

Some data hubs:

• Network datasets
• U.S. federal government datasets
• Numerous datasets

Some useful tools:

• Dictionary of positive terms
• Dictionary of negative terms

API resources:

• Numerous APIs
• Twitter API documentation