Social Media Happiness Experiment

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My roles: Lead programmer

Made with: Unity, C#

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This currently untitled project aims to create an interactive visualization of emotional data on Instagram. It will track the visual depictions of happiness for users to explore based on certain criteria, such as gender, age, ethnicity, and level of emotion portrayed.

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This project is still a work in progress but expected to be completed by June 2021. Plans to improve visual presentation of the photos based on their relation to the chosen categories are underway.

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The data consists of numbered photos (i.e. 001 or 121) and a .JSON file containing the numbered entries with all the additional data. The program reads the .JSON file to build a list of custom objects that the code can later sort through once the user makes their selection.