Peter Sheridan Dodds is an Australian

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. He is the director of the Vermont Complex Systems Center and Professor at the

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's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He has collaborated in several researches related to big data problems in areas as

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, stories,

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, and

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. With Chris Danforth, he co-runs the Computational Story Lab, the MassMutual Center of Excellence in Complex Systems and Data Science, and together, they developed the hedonometer. Recent researches directed by Peter Dodds in the Computational Story Lab has been commented on in ''

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'', and other media. In October 2020, the Hedonometor tool created by Dodds and his college Chris Danforth analyzed the sentiment of people through their tweets pointed out May 31 as the saddest day recorded. In Dodds's early career, from 2002 to 2007, he was a frequent collaborator of Duncan J. Watts. In 2016, Dodds collaborated with Danforth and Mark Ibrahim on writing about the phenomenon where

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Selected works

* Dodds, P. S., Alshaabi, T., Fudolig, M. I., Zimmerman, J. W., Lovato, J., Beaulieu, S., Minot, J. R., Arnold, M. V., Reagan, A. J., & Danforth, C. M. (2021). Ousiometrics and Telegnomics: The essence of meaning conforms to a two-dimensional powerful-weak and dangerous-safe framework with diverse corpora presenting a safety bias. ''ArXiv:2110.06847 hysics'. arxiv.org/abs/2110.06847 * Dodds, P. S., Harris, K. D., Kloumann, I. M., Bliss, C. A., & Danforth, C. M. (2011). Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter. ''PLoS ONE'', ''6''(12), e26752. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026752 * Dodds, P. S., Minot, J. R., Arnold, M. V., Alshaabi, T., Adams, J. L., Dewhurst, D. R., Gray, T. J., Frank, M. R., Reagan, A. J., & Danforth, C. M. (2020). Allotaxonometry and rank-turbulence divergence: A universal instrument for comparing complex systems. ''ArXiv:2002.09770 hysics'. * Dodds, P. S., Minot, J. R., Arnold, M. V., Alshaabi, T., Adams, J. L., Dewhurst, D. R., Reagan, A. J., & Danforth, C. M. (2021). Fame and Ultrafame: Measuring and comparing daily levels of `being talked about’ for United States’ presidents, their rivals, God, countries, and K-pop. ''ArXiv:1910.00149 hysics'.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dodds, Peter 21st-century Australian mathematicians Australian computer scientists Australian emigrants to the United States Complex systems scientists Graph drawing people Data and information visualization experts Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Living people University of Melbourne alumni University of Vermont faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Educational and science YouTubers American network scientists