Words of Persuasion – The Text Predictors of Persuasive TED Talks
What makes for a persuasive presentation? How can you speak to persuade? To create theodorespeaks.com, I webscraped every TED Talk, analyzed words in the transcripts & user’s ratings, and found that the most persuasive speakers used MORE negative emotion words and LESS ‘I, me, my’ words. So the next time you’re trying to convince, try […]
What’s your favorite Austin restaurant? (What was it’s last health inspection score)
Last night, the organizers of a meetup at data.world issued a challenge: in 1 hour, pull together 1 visualization that tells a story from an open dataset. Our team created an interactive dashboard to explore 3 years of good and bad restaurant health inspection scores in Austin. Search by restaurant name, choose your zip code […]
The greatest films of all time- a list compiled from multiple sources
This web app and open dataset I made for movie fans compiles several ‘greatest films’ lists to find the greatest of the great, and the analysis reveals seven films to be the best of the best. Here’s a Movie Recommender visualization and interface for the data hosted on Tableau Public: The Problem There’s nothing worse […]
Comedy Central Presents – Complete Episode List with IMDB Ratings
If you are serious about laughing, here’s a dataset for you and a visualization (below and here) you can use to explore it. Good stand-up comedy looks easy, but it is a structured, precise, and subtle form of communication, a tightrope walk in front of a live audience, that is always a millisecond or a […]
It’s All Connected
The ToK System as described by Henriques (2003). It’s all connected isn’t it? It’s not just six degrees of separation from any actor to Kevin Bacon, it’s a low number of degrees of separation between anything and anything else in the world. Start with any observation or fact and you can get to any other […]
Most Persuasive TED Talks
Learn to communicate better from the most persuasive speakers in the world with tools and insights from the Theodore Speaks web app. The purpose of this app is to understand (and emulate) the content and linguistic style of highly persuasive talks. The app uses natural language processing techniques and the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count […]