Selected Publications


Full publication list

  • A Large Clinical Trial to Measure Well-Being During the Transition to College Using Wearables: The Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study.
    M. Price, J. E. Hidalgo, Y. Bird, L. S. P. Bloomfield, C. Buck, J. Cerutti, P. S. Dodds, M. I. Fudolig, R. Gehman, M. Hickok, J. Kim, J. Llorin, J. Lovato, E. McGinnis, R. S. McGinnis, R. Norton, V. Ramirez, K. Stanton, T. H. Ricketts, C. M. Danforth.
    Contemporary Clinical Trials. In Press. 2023.
    [pdf] [journal url] [press]

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  • Storywrangler: A massive exploratorium for
    sociolinguistic, cultural, socioeconomic, and political timelines using Twitter.
    T. Alshaabi, J. L. Adams, M. V. Arnold, J. R. Minot, D. R. Dewhurst, A. J. Reagan, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    Science Advances. 2021.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [appendix] [online visualization] [thread] [press]

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  • Human Language Reveals a Universal Positivity Bias.
    P. S. Dodds, E. Clark, S. Desu, M. R. Frank, A. Reagan, J. R. Williams, L.Mitchell, K. D. Harris, I. M. Kloumann, J. P. Bagrow, K. Megerdoomian, M. T. McMahon, B. F. Tivnan, C. M. Danforth.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [interactive appendix] [press]

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  • The emotional arcs of stories are dominated by six basic shapes.
    A. J. Reagan, L. Mitchell, D. Kiley, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    EPJ Data Science. 2016.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [press] [interactive website] [online appendix]

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  • Instagram photos reveal predictive markers of depression.
    A. G. Reece, C. M. Danforth.
    EPJ Data Science. 2017.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [press]
    Among 20 most discussed studies in 2017 (out of 2M), as measured by Altmetric.

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  • How the world’s collective attention is being paid to a pandemic: COVID-19 related 1-gram time series for 24 languages on Twitter.
    T. Alshaabi, M. V. Arnold, J. R. Minot, J. L. Adams, D. R. Dewhurst, A. J. Reagan, R. Muhamad, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    PLoS ONE. 2020.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [online appendix] [press] [animation] [thread]

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  • The Lexicocalorimeter: Gauging public health through caloric input and output on social media.
    S. E. Alajajian, J. R. Williams, A. J. Reagan, S. C. Alajajian, M. R. Frank, L.Mitchell, J. Lahne, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    PLoS ONE. 2017.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [interactive visualization] [twitter account] [press]

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  • Hahahahaha, Duuuuude, Yeeessss!: A two-parameter characterization of stretchable words and the dynamics of mistypings and misspellings.
    T. Gray, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    PLoS ONE. 2020.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [thread] [online appendix] [press]

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  • Characterizing the Google Books Corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural & linguistic evolution.
    E. A. Pechenick, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    PLoS ONE. 2015.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [thread] [press]

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  • The Geography of Happiness: Connecting Twitter sentiment and expression, demographics, and objective characteristics of place.
    L. Mitchell, K. D. Harris, M. R. Frank, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.
    PLoS ONE. 2013.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [press] [online appendix] [ellen]

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  • Happiness and the Patterns of Life: A Study of Geolocated Tweets.
    M. R. Frank, L. Mitchell, P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.
    Scientific Reports. 2013.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [press]

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  • An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach to Link Prediction in Dynamic Social Networks.
    C. A. Bliss, M. R. Frank, C. M. Danforth, P. S. Dodds.
    Journal of Computational Science. 2013.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv]

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  • Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global-Scale Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter.
    P. S. Dodds, K. D. Harris, I. M. Kloumann, C. A. Bliss, C. M. Danforth.
    PLoS ONE 2011. Top 1% most cited PLoS ONE articles.
    [pdf] [journal url] [labMT 1.0 word list] [blog] [arXiv] [press] [interactive website] [twitter account]

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  • Measuring the Happiness of Large-Scale Written Expression: Songs, Blogs, and Presidents.
    P. S. Dodds, C. M. Danforth.
    Journal of Happiness Studies. 2009.
    [pdf] [journal url] [arXiv] [press]

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  • Estimating and Correcting Global Weather Model Error.
    C. M. Danforth, E. Kalnay, T. Miyoshi.
    Monthly Weather Review. 2007.
    [pdf] [journal url]

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  • Making Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes.
    C. M. Danforth, J. A. Yorke.
    Physical Review Letters. 2006.
    [pdf] [journal url]

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