<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This talk, at UMass on Friday, looks pretty interesting, with possible connections to work in social psychology among other areas.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The UMass Computational Social Science Institute tends to have talks along these lines pretty regularly, and there are instructions for getting on their mailing list at the end of the announcement.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> -Lee</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"James Kitts" <<a href="mailto:jkitts@soc.umass.edu" class="">jkitts@soc.umass.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[CSSI-events] CSSI Lunch Seminar Friday September 9, Chris Danforth</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">September 3, 2016 at 5:26:13 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:cssi-events@cssi.umass.edu" class="">cssi-events@cssi.umass.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Please forward this to any faculty, grad students, labs, or local lists interested in computational social science at UMass.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">The UMass Computational Social Science Institute invites you to the first meeting of our weekly CSSI seminar, in its sixth year:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><h4 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><img class="" apple-inline="yes" id="9433787A-086A-4110-87DD-AED048589151" height="120" width="120" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.png@01D205A1.8E2B94A0"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></h4><h4 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(79, 129, 189); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Chris Danforth<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h4><h5 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">University of Vermont, Department of Mathematics & Statistics<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h5><h5 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Friday, September 9, 2016 • 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. (lunch served at noon)<br class="">Computer Science Building, Room 150/151<o:p class=""></o:p></span></h5><h5 style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Title: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Limits to Socio-Cultural Inference from Tweets & Books <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></h5><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Abstract: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Scientific analysis of large-scale text has begun to reveal remarkable insights into human behavior. Indeed, there is growing evidence that our society’s daily online interactions can be appropriately aggregated into digital measures of physical mobility, emotional health, and linguistic evolution. However, the socio-technical instruments of tomorrow will be limited by the quality of the data they are fed, as well as human awareness of their existence. This talk will describe our ongoing effort to quantify the population-scale sentiment associated with any topic using Twitter, including a public health application where we found 80% of opinions to be expressed by non-human actors. We will also describe our recent analysis of the Google Books corpus, and point to the need to fully characterize its behavior before drawing broad conclusions about cultural dynamics.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Bio: </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Chris Danforth is the Flint Professor of Mathematical, Natural, and Technical Sciences at the University of Vermont. With colleague Peter Dodds, he co-directs the Computational Story Lab, a group of applied mathematicians and data scientists at the undergraduate, masters, PhD, and postdoctoral level working on large-scale, systems problems in many fields including sociology, nonlinear dynamics, networks, ecology, and physics. The group has built several socio-technical instruments including the Hedonometer and the Lexicocalorimeter. Danforth's formal background is in nonlinear dynamics applied to weather and climate prediction, and he is a member of the Mathematics & Climate Research Network.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">---------------------------------------<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">SIGN UP FOR ANY OR ALL OF THE CSSI LISTS BELOW<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="https://mailman.cs.umass.edu/mailman/listinfo/cssi-events" style="color: purple; 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