The Happiest States and Cities in the U.S.
Instagram can inform you what’s new, what’s cool, and what’s for a feast. But can you apply it to find happiness? The data analysts at HouseFresh assume so, and they analyzed thousands of Instagram selfies to identify the happiest locations in the United States–and those places where intense smiles are more prevalent than genuine joy.
Happiness may be difficult to find, but it’s even harder to fabricate. A generation of internet users has grown up with everyone constantly looking happy on Instagram, and they have figured out how to tell the difference. No matter how much you rehearse or how many discarded shots end up in your phone’s trash, people have studied to piece together the clues from your selfies and figure out how you truly feel.
Thankfully, robots are selfie-literate, too. Artificial intelligence can recognize every face in a crowd, but it can also determine every emotion in a selfie. So, HouseFresh put technology to the test…
