I like the potential for environmental research: mappiness, the happiness mapping app

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"what's in it for us?

We're particularly interested in how people's happiness is affected by their local environment — air pollution, noise, green spaces, and so on — which the data from mappiness will be absolutely great for investigating
We hope to have results published in academic journals and elsewhere — whatever we produce will be linked from here"