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Google Books: Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books
- roadnottaken 16y agoHere's the original HN submission, which links to the full-text of the article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013453 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013453
- spravin 16y agoHere's the tool: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ I just found that misunderestimate was not invented by Bush but the word predates him by a century http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=misunderestimate&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=misunderestimate&...
- moultano 16y agoHere's what I've done with it: http://moultano.blogspot.com/2010/12/history-through-google-books-ngrams.html http://moultano.blogspot.com/2010/12/history-through-google-... This tool is absolutely amazing.
- corin_ 16y agoI rather enjoyed getting this link in my twitter stream, a comparison of 'morals' vs. 'breasts': http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=morals%2Cbreasts&year_start=1920&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=morals%2Cbreasts&...
- klbarry 16y agoOutstanding! http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=business,marketing,entrepreneurship,capitalism,corporation&year_start=1760&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=business,marketin...
- jodrellblank 16y agoThe rise and fall of a technological era (steam): http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=steam+hammer%2Ctraction+engine%2Csteam+boat%2Csteam+engine&year_start=1760&year_end=2000&corpus=0&smoothing=2 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=steam+hammer%2Ctr... And the change from 1900's technology to 2000's technology illustrated: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=electronic%2Cradio%2Ctelephone%2Ctelevision%2Cinternet%2Cwww&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=electronic%2Cradi... :D