The Emotional Breakdown is a new web tool that measures levels of happiness. The website was created by participants of New York’s Photo Hack Day who were trying to create something unique and interesting using API tools such as the facial recognition application Face.com. The Emotional Breakdown analyses the emotional state of the world by detecting the facial expressions of people in photos. It graphs the mood of inputted webpages with simple pie charts visuals. By default the website shows the mood of The Guardian’s 24 Hours In Pictures feed, but users can also break down the emotions of other websites. When the chosen URL is put into the website, the software compiles the data into happy, sad, angry, surprised and neutral.   It’s interesting to see how software like this can be used as a relevant and current analysis tool, and how digital technology can be used to quantify human expressions.