The objective of this study was to recreate this visualization in an Indian context.
On 23rd July 2021, I asked followers of India in Pixels on Facebook to mention all possible replies to the question - What do you think about this? in Hindi. As I saw people started reporting answers in their languages, I expanded the scope of the project to include any Indian language.
Based on all the responses, on 20th November 2021, I compiled a final list of finalist expressions from 4 languages - Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Tamil based on the number of responses received and the spectrum of expression across which the words spanned.
A simple Firebase powered interface was created here: Expressions Survey where people could rate each word based on their own positivity score. There are some expletives in the dataset which people could keep out of their questionnaire, if they chose to do so.
After 72 hours, the survey was closed (still available but the database has read and write disabled now) The raw data was downloaded as responses.json and the legend of word - language mapping is attached in lang_source.json
Please reach out to me at hello@iashris.com if you make use of this study.
