The story needs a progress indicator. I didn't know if I was almost done, or had another hour to go. So I quit.

Also, there should be an option to just get the story as text.

What’s with being a parent is one of 5 qualifiers of a person? My answer would be - happy every day that I didnt have children. I’m curious if there is correlation.

I would really, really love it to have some sort of conclusion / interpretation / aggregated data.

Anyone know what’s the underling map/tile technology used? I’m on my phone and can’t check

A happy map that makes me sad.

It doesn't look very graphics-intensive, yet runs at about 2FPS on Safari, on my 3.8GHz quad core i5. The site's performance could use an investigation by a software developer.

Awesome project!

It looks like the Physical & Active Hobbies sector is populated exclusively by books in the northeast portion and video games in the southwest. It might be a direct swap with the Gaming & Virtual Worlds sector, which contains some physical activity events.

I for one am looking forward to retirement. I am planning on being high all the time, gardening and yelling at children passing by my property. Growing my hair and beard, wearing a bandana and a tie-dyed shirt and paying for my coffee in quarters in a wooden treasure box I carry as a purse. The goal is to liberate the crazy.

For a 'happy map' there is a bizarrely puritanical deficit of orgasms. EDIT: oh wait I found one about backrubbing. That's nice I guess.

> But research is showing that social media and smartphones have made us addicted to screens from a young age. It’s taken a toll on how much time we spend together

Agree completely, but it has also lead to widely held pessimistic beliefs like

> But how do we find meaning when the climate is warming, politics is broken, and technology serves profit over people? We can’t think about thriving; we're merely surviving.

I anticipate downvotes, but I seriously suggest reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now for some perspective about long term positive trends, and insights into why we over weigh short term negative news to the detriment of our mental health.

zomming enough should make all comments visible

Pudding continue to be awesome. I'm so glad they exist.

Children/family = least agency, while buying something = most agency? I must be misunderstanding something big time.

Too bad it uses OpenGL so I can't open it. I usually love this website.

There might be a bug with the age filters. I'm seeing some 20s and 60s mixed up.

I played with the map a little bit. I think its cool at the first glance. What is missing is how it necessarily applies to me, user? I can understand that probably what makes people truly happy universally is applicable to me. But probably could use some quick guidance. You say it in your description - story, although this moment is buried in longer description of methodology. I also had to figure out on my own that each individual response is example of what can make me happy. Still, I think this map has potential for more cool features base don this data.