Are There More Positive Words Than Negative Words?

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i want to do this a if my podcast episodes, i have transcripts for all of them. I ton't know which ones are powerful or weak, or dangerous or safe, no, i mean, it it. They're all a little bit different, but all of tem have what i'll call the safe a safety bias. That's and that turns out that quadrant, that's what i'll calls the safe, powerful an quadrant. It sort of lines up with positivity and happiness. And there's this much older work that we built on ad when we looked at large texts.

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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