<p>I'm interested <strong>if there are publicly available tools or resources that can be used to gauge the overall activity/excitability or mood of general public</strong> for a specific day.</p>

<p>For example, yesterday I noticed that my favorite restaurant was packed, and their receipt order count was close to 700 orders before 7:30PM. At my favorite hackerspace, there were significantly more people than usual, and multiple new people have shown up. There was a large donation left at the hackerspace.</p>

<p>A situation like the one described above peaks my interest in whether or not there are some environmental factors that affects general population of the United States. Naturally, the first step is to demonstrate that some sort of statistically significant changes from day to day exist, then find potential sources.</p>

<p>I'm aware <a href="https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/311/how-to-classify-and-understand-emotions-of-people-using-chat-and-text-messaging">of this question that suggests that twitter analysis can be used to detect sentiment</a>, but <strong>are there tools that can do this kind of twitter analysis for a layperson</strong>, like myself?</p>

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I first want to understand if there is an influence. I don't see anything wrong with the question, it has to be broad, since I don't really know what kind of tools are there that can answer the question if there is an influence on mass public.
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How can one estimate the excitability or mood of general public on a specific day?
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# How can one estimate the excitability or mood of general public on a specific day?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-23)

I'm interested **if there are publicly available tools or resources that can be used to gauge the overall activity/excitability or mood of general public** for a specific day.

For example, yesterday I noticed that my favorite restaurant was packed, and their receipt order count was close to 700 orders before 7:30PM. At my favorite hackerspace, there were significantly more people than usual, and multiple new people have shown up. There was a large donation left at the hackerspace.

A situation like the one described above peaks my interest in whether or not there are some environmental factors that affects general population of the United States. Naturally, the first step is to demonstrate that some sort of statistically significant changes from day to day exist, then find potential sources.

I'm aware [of this question that suggests that twitter analysis can be used to detect sentiment](https://cogsci.stackexchange.com/questions/311/how-to-classify-and-understand-emotions-of-people-using-chat-and-text-messaging), but **are there tools that can do this kind of twitter analysis for a layperson**, like myself?

**Tags:** social-psychology, emotion, computational-modeling, behaviorism

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> **username_0**: I first want to understand if there is an influence. I don't see anything wrong with the question, it has to be broad, since I don't really know what kind of tools are there that can answer the question if there is an influence on mass public.  

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