Can We Predict Which Things Will Take Off?

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I get the impression that a lot of the excitement way youre doing is still ahead, like we've just started picking some of the low hanging fruit. Are people trying to operationalize these ideas in that sense? Yes. So this is the probament, reality s socially constructed. And we have all to work on on fame and many peopleve kind of come to this in different ways. This is the great problem of advertising, writ thes a sort of, probably made up mind. We just don't know which halfnd will take off for sure. I mean, ther's certainly a lott the end that we've cover that is going on here. How little counet pit

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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