In this course we will explore the following topics:
- Intro to the Science of Stories and Digital Humanities
- Understanding Narratives with Artificial Intelligence
- Sentiment Analysis and Topic Models
- The nature of storytelling
- Analysis of social media and other qualitative data
- Cognitive models of information theory
- Information theory, a look into what elements in a story stick
- Emotion and empathy in story
- Information flow on networks
- Recognizing patterns in a digitized corpus
- How to effectively communicate data-rich narratives to the public
- Visualization of data rich stories
- Sound Visualization
- Folklore, cultural analytics, and story building
- Applications of deep learning to narrative understanding
- Robot Poetry