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Archetypometrics of 'Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Storytelling inherently revolves around characters. Using the television sitcom `Friends' as a case study, we investigate how well archetype vectors capture both individual charact…
Dynastic dynamics: Modelling powerful naming choices with stochastic prestige
Pablo Rosillo-Rodes, Santiago Lamata-OtÃn, David Soriano-Paños +2
The naming choices of powerful rulers encode millennia of cultural, political, and institutional influences. Consequently, the long-term onomastic dynamics within some of the most…
Narrative Structure in Tropes: A Computational Analysis of `Friends'
Shun Zhang, Tabia Tanzin Prama, Christopher M. Danforth +1
Tropes are recurring narrative devices in television and film. We carry out a computational analysis of tropes in the sitcom Friends, using human-curated trope annotations from TVT…
Complete asymptotic type-token relationship for growing complex systems with inverse power-law count rankings
Pablo Rosillo-Rodes, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Peter Sheridan Dodds
The growth dynamics of complex systems often exhibit statistical regularities involving power-law relationships. For real finite complex systems formed by countable tokens (animals…
One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories
Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Antoine Allard +15
From pathogens and computer viruses to genes and memes, contagion models have found widespread utility across the natural and social sciences. Despite their success and breadth of…