Is There a Difference Between Happiness and Sadness on Twitter?

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There is a predictability to the big spikes in positivity. So valentines day will have lonely, right? Butt's. It's being kind of wiped ou and christmas might have that as well. But ultaa, board and hang over, you know, ther ther some not your notls. And you can see it for days of the week. saturday is generally the most positive day. Tuesday is generally theMost negativeday. Saturday has movies, weddings,. You know, like th lots of positive things that might happen on saturdays. Or so it's ii's, it's not.

A good story takes you on an emotional journey, with ups and downs along the way. Thanks to science, we can quantify that. Peter Dodds works on understanding the structure of stories and other strings of words (including Twitter) by analyzing the valence of individual words, then studying how they are strung together in different kinds of stories. Understanding these structures offers powerful insight into how people communicate and how to reach them. As Peter says, “Never bring statistics to a story fight.”

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Peter Dodds received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Vermont and Director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center. He has won multiple teaching awards, and was elected a Fellow of the Network Science Society.

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