Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS)
Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)
Recent funding from NSF, MRI, AMD, & MassMutual
“Inside the lab that’s quantifying happiness”
Profile of our research group in Outside Magazine
Research team & group publications
"The war in Ukraine has made Russian social-media users glum" The Economist
“Is Everybody Doing … OK? Let’s Ask Social Media”
Story on Hedonometer in New York Times
“Has Twitter just had its saddest fortnight ever?”
Story on Hedonometer in Nature
"Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter" Paper in Science Advances
“Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression”
Paper in EPJ Data Science, coverage by New York Times
“The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes” Paper in EPJ Data Science, coverage by The Atlantic
“Human language reveals a universal positivity bias”
Paper in PNAS, coverage by New York Times
StoryWrangler: A visual comparison of phrase popularity in 150 billion tweets
Full publication list
Applied Mathematics classes taught at UVM include Linear Algebra, Numerical Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamics, Ordinary Differential Equations, and Data Ethics
We now offer an undergraduate degree in Data Science, as well as both MS and PhD degrees in Complex Systems & Data Science
Statistics in slow motion pic.twitter.com/Y4zZoFiwuy
— Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) February 23, 2018
Meanwhile, weather prediction, our society's best algorithmic decision support tool, and one of the great success stories of science, continues to improve.https://t.co/sDRtAOzBVv pic.twitter.com/wPK0IZwCZR
— Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) January 24, 2019
Did Trump's speech on January 6 incite violence? Yes.
— Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) February 12, 2021
Data journalism piece led by @aleszubajak w/analysis of Parler from @uvmcomplexity Director @peterdodds & Data Artist @artistjaneadams contributes evidence for conviction:https://t.co/VEoO80EYjz
Your morning dose of glowing deterministic nonperiodic flow!
— Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) May 30, 2019
Chaotic project with my 5th grade son. pic.twitter.com/s1QwBSDJkC
Hahahahaha, Duuuuude, Yessssssssss!
— Chris Danforth (@ChrisDanforth) July 10, 2019
How do words get stretched for dramatic effect? In many very interesting ways! Details:https://t.co/ZkBLiPW2wR pic.twitter.com/3fqbPLjQvb
Yesterday was the saddest day in the history of @Twitter pic.twitter.com/91VP3Ywtnr
— hedonometer (@hedonometer) May 30, 2020