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The new year is a great time to focus on what's most important to you. Hello fresh delivers preportioned ingredients to your door, including farm fresh produce that arrives within a week. Peter dodds is a statistician at the university of vermont who studies big data kinds of problems in many different contexts from earth sciences to language to ecology. For today we're going to go into big data and story telling.

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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