Do You Feel in Control or Not in Control?

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We're looking at data sets that had a thousand words with scores associated with them. So it's not a big set of words, right? People's vocabularies are tens of thousands. We've got this work from, we didn't do this the study, but a couple of years ago. It's worked by mahammed in canada. Again, on the line, many, many people are doing these evaluations and now we've got 20 thousand. And if you sort of rotate this football and kind of squeeze some of the axes and pull some of them apart, you geta another shape. This is like a compass for basic meaning so danger is down and safety is up

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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