181 | Peter Dodds on Quantifying the Shape of Stories
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Quantifying Human Emotion through Text
This chapter analyzes human emotions using textual data from sources like social media and literature, focusing on tools like the Hedonometer to track happiness trends. Discussions include significant societal events' impact on emotional states and the classification of narrative structures in storytelling across genres. The chapter also introduces methodologies for large-scale analysis of written works and highlights the Story Wrangler tool for cataloging literary narratives.
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