Time Dilation

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The election and things seeking what qantify the impression we all have that sort of time froze once the pendemic it iand people said this to said, people said this anecdotally all the time. But in fact, yot, 14 days in april 20 20 is kind of, you would have the same sort of turn over in two days, in two thousand seven. And had weird, slow, it's a weird thing. Evenater the rate at which time passes is sort of inverse to the rapid rapidity with which things happen.

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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