Looking Outwards 07: Information Visualization

“We feel fine” project was created by Jonathan Harris in 2009 for a book co-authored with Seth Kamvar. The graphs show in-depth exploration of human emotions. They’re developed from a database of more than twelve million individual sentences collected over three years from personal blogs on the Internet and show the world’s emotional landscape of ups and downs. I personally admire how he was able to create a statistical graph of the world’s emotional struggles, such as mood swings. I thought that choosing this particular theme was interesting to begin with. I believe that gathering information on emotional state and putting it into graphs are more challenging than getting statistical and measurable information, such as rainfall rate, and turning that into graphs. His artistic ability shined through his graph by using different color schemes and styles to convey all the different emotions. His graphs clearly conveyed the complexity of emotions as well.