A New Method to Predict Happiness Index Using Tweets

Happiness is one of the parameter that people anticipate out of their work, money, family, friends, society and environment. People aim highest level of life satisfaction and eudaimonia from the society. All government policies should be evaluated against the touchstone of well-being and hence the forecasting Happiness Index helps in adopting new strategies to reach the goals. Computation of Happiness Index is done with surveys and information available from government and non-government agencies and hence accuracy depends on survey inputs/results. Social network posts are the feelings of the people and will attempt to reflect their happiness feelings directly and more accurately. We adopted the people's tweets in a geographical area and limited our work with the depressive and anti-depressive tweets as they are unswervingly results towards happiness. A new method to forecast Happiness Index is computed and our results are closer to the real values than few known forecasting methods.