Chris Danforth

Christopher Michael Danforth
Known forHedonometer
Sentiment analysis
Mental health detection research
Computational Story Lab
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Applied Mathematics
Computational Social Science
Complex Systems
InstitutionsUniversity of Vermont
Websitewww.uvm.edu/~cdanfort/

Christopher Michael Danforth is an American computer scientist and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Vermont. He is known for his work in computational social science, particularly for developing the Hedonometer, a tool for measuring collective mood and happiness using sentiment analysis of social media data.

Danforth co-directs the Computational Story Lab at the Vermont Complex Systems Center with Peter Sheridan Dodds, where he leads research on large-scale sociotechnical systems, exploring human behavior through analysis of social media and other digital data sources.

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