Is It All in the Lens?

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So i think the future of this, of course, is to create things really well, like here are, here are detective stories, here are stories from this particular culture, and so on. S so it becomes a and we found this with the hedonomy o work in general. If you estimate the happiness of a set of words, you might say, ok, maybe i can get an air measure for that. Rite is a very typical thing to do with measurement. But it turns out it was completely in the lens.

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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