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Bay Area City Ranked Happiest, Smiliest In America: Study
CONCORD, CA — The East Bay city of Concord was ranked the No. 1 happiest and smiliest city in America in a study sponsored by HouseFresh.
"We used Microsoft’s face recognition API, Azure, to analyze a database of Instagram selfies from every state and the 100 biggest U.S. cities to see which are the happiest places to live," the study's authors wrote.
"This facial recognition tool places numerical estimates on emotions based on characteristics and expressions. To work out the happiest cities and states, we used the FaceAPI happiness score, averaging all the scores in each location. For the smiliest cities and states, we considered that a face has a smile if its smile score was greater than 0.75. The locations were ranked by the percentage of people smiling."
Here are the Top 10 Happiest Cities in America, according to the study:
Bay Area City Ranked Happiest, Smiliest In America: Study
CONCORD, CA — The East Bay city of Concord was ranked the No. 1 happiest and smiliest city in America in a study sponsored by HouseFresh.
"We used Microsoft’s face recognition API, Azure, to analyze a database of Instagram selfies from every state and the 100 biggest U.S. cities to see which are the happiest places to live," the study's authors wrote.
"This facial recognition tool places numerical estimates on emotions based on characteristics and expressions. To work out the happiest cities and states, we used the FaceAPI happiness score, averaging all the scores in each location. For the smiliest cities and states, we considered that a face has a smile if its smile score was greater than 0.75. The locations were ranked by the percentage of people smiling."
Here are the Top 10 Happiest Cities in America, according to the study:
- Concord, California: 79.1
- Provo, Utah: 74.95
- Knoxville, Tennessee: 74.72
- Charleston, South Carolina: 74.17
- Mesa, Arizona: 71.48
- Cape Coral, Florida: 70.89
- Ogden, Utah: 69.15
- Nashville, Tennessee: 68.31
- Sarasota, Florida: 66.78
- New Orleans, Louisiana: 65.87