Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Google has a neat capability--ngrams!

The amazing application announced recently allows you to easily analyze “the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.

Take a peek @http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1&hphttp://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/new_visualization_tool_from_google_with_data_from.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb)

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=google-books-culture

http://peterpappas.blogs.com/copy_paste/2010/12/how-to-quantify-culture-google-ngram-viewer-explore-500-billion-published-words.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/vampire-vs-zombie-comparing-word-usage-through-time/68203/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/10_fascinating_word_graphs_from_200_years_of_googl.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb

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  1. dmacRHSDecember 14, 2011 at 10:56 AM

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  2. dmacRHSDecember 14, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    Words, words, words. Very interesting to see the change in usage over the years. Software and computer programming weren't even mentioned up until the sixties.

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