The Data of Happiness
The 2021 world happiness report reveals the secrets of a happy culture and how to bounce back from crisis.
What team TIBCO countries were happiest in 2021? Click to expand.
Trust and the feeling you can count on others are the keys to a happy culture and are more important than income, employment, and major health risks. So says data from the 2021 World Happiness Report.
Researchers measure trust by the feeling that your lost wallet would be returned if found by a police officer, a neighbor, or a stranger. They found this was more important to happy people than income, unemployment, and major health risks.
This holiday pie chart greeting shows the world happiness rankings of the 23 countries on my team at TIBCO. Sweden and Australia lead the happy pack on my team. Ranking descends clockwise. The size of each slice of the pie shows each country’s happiness score in 2021. For example, the United States ranks 6th on our TIBCO engineering team at 4:00.
Happy cultures withstand crises better than unhappy ones. Yes, sadness and worry increased during the pandemic. But the rankings remained in the same order.
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It’s a remarkable finding for any happy team, family, or culture: trust and teamwork trump money and adversity.
May your countries, families, and teams have a happy 2022!
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The World Happiness Report is a publication of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, powered by data from the Gallup World Poll and Lloyd’s Register Foundation.
I created these visualizations as an exercise to learn Datylon, which makes it easy and fun to create data art. Designer Dieuwertje van Dijk inspired it with her submission in the Storytelling with Data community.
