Biography:Chris Danforth
Chris Danforth is a computer scientist and a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Vermont. He is known for his work with the Hedonometer, a tool developed for measuring collective mood with sentiment analysis.[1]
Danforth directs the Computational Story Lab at Vermont Complex Systems Center.[2] His research job is focused on exploring human behavior through social media data.[3]
In 2007, Danforth collaborated with Peter Sheridan Dodds to develop a tool to measure happiness that they called a "hedonometer." For creating it, a team directed by Danforth surveyed speakers of several languages to rate words on a scale of happiest to saddest.[4]
In collaboration with social psychologist Andrew Reece, Danforth found that depressed people post photos on Instagram whose colors are cooler and darker than those of non-depressed people. In 2020, he found evidence that analyzing social media techniques might identify viral outbreaks.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Can people's tweets help find coronavirus outbreaks?" (in en). 1 May 2020. https://www.bates.edu/news/2020/05/01/can-peoples-tweets-help-find-coronavirus-outbreaks/. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ "Chris Danforth". http://www.uvm.edu/~cdanfort/. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ "Chris Danforth". https://www.case.org/chris-danforth. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
- ↑ Bakuli, Ethan. "UVM 'happiness calculator' research highlighted in popular Reply All podcast". https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/2020/10/29/uvm-happiness-calculator-research-highlighted-reply-all-podcast/6069635002/. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
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