What's the Happiness of a Set of Words?

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i think the future of this, of course, is to create things really well. We have 20 thousand books and that's a hard thing to read. What we're trying to do is what i've sort of called telenomic, which is like distant mase sensing of knowledge,. So far it's a gno mix, like far knowledge and and because there's no way an individual can do that. Rit thiss gets beyond itight. Mist importnt i get beyond i. Probably i as the ao, deliat, but your taking that part out, you know, was is better or worse than yesterday? I want to say that the man in the hall one

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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