what made you happy today?

Scroll down to let us know.

Select a category for your happy moment.

affection
achievement
enjoy the moment
bonding
leisure
nature
exercise

Please enter your demographics.

*For fields selected as "other",your results in the next section will base on the overall data of that field. For exaple, if 'gender' is set to 'other', results will be based on data from both male and female.

Thanks for sharing your happy moment.
Underlined words in your happy moment are among top key words used to describe all happy moments.
If you see no underlined words, your moment was truly unique in its diction!

About the Dataset

This narrative uses data from HappyDB. HappyDB is a corpus of 100,000+ happy moments collected by researchers at Meganon Labs. Researchers used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to collect responses to the question: "What made you happy today?". More information can be found on Megagon's website here.

Scroll down to explore the dataset.

Demographics

Who makes up our data?
Hover over the icons below to see which demographics submit the most happy moments.

country
country
gender
gender
marital
marital status
parenthood
parenthood
age
age
Linear Logarithmic

Word Cloud

What kind of words do people like to use when they write about their happy moments?
Pick a topic below, and you will see a word cloud showing the most frequently used words for happy moments to the topic of your choice.
You can hover over a specific word to see its frequency within the corpus, filtered by the topic of your choice, as well as a sample moment using that word within your chosen category.



Self Discovery

Let's talk about what makes you happy, from day to day.

(Step 1) How happy does each category make you? Drag & drop the categories to rank them from top to bottom, in order of most to least happy. (We will show you moments from your top 3 categories.)

  • affection
  • achievement
  • enjoy the moment
  • bonding
  • leisure
  • nature
  • exercise

(Step 2) Choose 5 words from the word cloud that spark joy. Click on a word to select it.

Done? Click the Submit button to see happy moments from the database that match your selections.







Here are moments we found based on what makes you happy.

When you read these happy moments, how do you feel?

Do they also spark joy in you?

Explore our Happy Moments

Most people find happiness in life's smallest moments.

Hover over the categories below to see an example of what might make someone happy.
Click to filter happy moments by that category.


Exercise

exercise

Enjoy the Moment

enjoy_the_moment

Bonding

bonding

Achievement

achievement

Nature

nature

Affection

affection

Leisure

leisure


Here are happy moments we found in the category.
You can also filter happy moments based on demographics using the panel on the side. If you would not like to filter by a demographic, simply leave that filter blank.


Demographic Filters