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Peter Dodds (mathematician)

Peter Dodds (mathematician) is a mathematics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Peter Dodds (mathematician) rather than just read about it. In short: Peter Sheridan Dodds is an Australian applied Mathematician. He is the director of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute and Professor at the University of Vermont's Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

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Reference excerpt

Peter Sheridan Dodds is an Australian applied Mathematician. He is the director of the Vermont Complex Systems Institute and Professor at the University of Vermont's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He has collaborated in several researches related to big data problems in areas as language, stories, sociotechnical systems, complex systems, Earth science, biology, and ecology. 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 research directed by Dodds has been commented on in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, and other media. In October 2020, the Hedonometor tool created by Dodds and his Danforth analyzed the sentiment of people through their tweets to identify 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 Wikipedia articles are connected by "Philosophy". In 2023, as part of a group of researchers in the Vermont Complex Systems Institute, he helped win a National Science Foundation award to study the science of stories. This 5-year grant was called The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS).

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 [Physics]. 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 [Physics]. 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 [Physics].

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Peter Dodds (mathematician)

In research: Peter Dodds (mathematician) appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Peter Dodds (mathematician) in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Peter Dodds (mathematician) is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century Australian mathematicians, American network scientists, Australian computer scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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