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Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index (TSGI) dataset: A global high-frequency dataset for monitoring Subjective Well-Being

Introduction
Promoting well-being is one of the key targets of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations. Many national and city governments worldwide are incorporating subjective well-being (SWB) indicators into their agenda to complement traditional objective development and economic metrics. In this study, we develop the Twitter sentiment geographical index (TSGI), a proxy for SWB by applying natural language processing techniques on a comprehensive archive of 7.4 billion geotagged tweets. In contrast to the previous works focusing on SWB,...

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